Man Widdicombe reports a new government campaign about ‘drug-driving’.
I can’t play back the video clip so I shall have to imagine it. Of course it is about wicked, evil recreational drugs, isn’t it?
Not about the millions and millions of people driving to and fro every day with their NHS-prescribed happy-pills in their pocket, the label [...]
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Pah
Posted in policing, tagged driving, drugs on 18 August, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Infallible
Posted in policing, tagged DNA fabrication on 18 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Slashdot reports that it appears to have become feasible to fabricate DNA evidence.
Well, that didn’t take long, then.
So now a ’specimen’ of one’s DNA (a record of which is naturally available to the state) can be cobbled together from ’snippets’ and planted at the crime scene of their choice.
And the public, assured by the MSM [...]
Damn-right dept.
Posted in policing, tagged race on 22 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A fine summary of the position with respect to the ongoing game of ‘race cards’ from The Thinking Policeman:
Those journalists and human rights activists are, in all reality, the ones who are displaying racial prejudice. They consider the visible ethnic minorities to either be so stupid or lazy that they feel they must complain on [...]
Loud-hailer
Posted in policing, tagged loud-hailer on 2 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Daily Telegraph reports a new cost-saving measure from the police.
They will cruise the streets with a loud-hailer, shouting at residents to lock all doors and windows and thus save the police money that might have been wasted investigating burglaries.
They will also enter unsecured premises and shout through the loud-hailer at anyone they find asleep [...]
Like buses
Posted in policing, tagged blogging on 20 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another proper copper on his way to Foreign Climes. PC Pinkstone of Don’t mess with me, I’m from Luton has, it seems, got a better job on ‘t other side of ‘t pond.
He says that after a three-month break he’ll be back online, so that’s all right.
However, the attrition rate of serving UK police [...]
Cynical, heartless, anti-Liverpudlian, Home Counties Rugby snob
Posted in policing, tagged Hillsborough on 18 April, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I am obliged to the Ambush Predator for reference to this BBC story about a footballer who failed to ’show respect’ at the event commemorative of the fatalities at the Hillsborough football stadium 20 years ago.
Over the past few days I have been in a place where television is still tolerated, and was unable to [...]
“But nobody is ever told what would have happened.”
Posted in policing, tagged reform on 18 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
[C.S. Lewis]
Julia M, the Ambush Predator, appears to share my view that the behaviour of a few real police officers (and, perhaps predictably, a rather greater number of Interior Ministry troops) has been so exploited by the god-awful mainstream media as substantially to worsen the mutual respect of police and public.
While the reform (or perhaps, [...]
“I am sorry but your protection officers have buggered off “
Posted in policing, tagged new blog on 18 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to The Thin Blue Line for this morning’s first and badly-needed laugh; there have been many captioned photographs of the home secretary, but this one was the only one that endangered my keyboard. TTBL has now been added to the ‘Police’ links on the right, not because I can understand all that many of [...]
The badge of courage
Posted in policing, tagged PC Gary Toms on 18 April, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I should like to point out to Inspector Gadget that not everybody believes the stories about the G20 protests and their consequences, particularly since said stories are now being managed by the country’s most notorious publicist.
I am sorry that police officers regard the media (by which I suppose Gadget must mean the mainstream media) as [...]
Revenuemobiles
Posted in policing, tagged cctv, Smart Cars on 11 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Another distraction for the motorist: looking out for these (BBC, via Boing Boing).
Smart Cars, fitted with 3.6m (12′) camera masts, are being deployed at road junctions to film drivers who are, by doing anything at all other than concentrating utterly on the brakelights of the car in front, rendering themselves liable to a fine.
The one [...]
