Originally Posted by Shjustme
Years ago at a base in Germany, the Commanding Officer himself said that he wanted something done about speeding motorists going along 'his roads' ... So plods were sent out for days and weeks, stopped 'speeding motorists' and advised them of their short comings, but same names were soon identified as repeat offenders, nobody took any notice of the advice / warnings given.. CO got mad and ordered something else be done to stop the offenders. Therefore 'speed measuring machines' were borrowed from the Army RMP for a couple of weeks.. Evidence was thus obtained against offenders, charges made, fines handed down at subordinate commanders hearings, and the commissioned 'lot' were awarded 'monetary penal deductions'...
Road safety improved... The Commanding Officer was dead chuffed.... Plods had done their job as directed, but took a lot of flak from all and sundry..
No win situation..
If the airforce hired people who were capable of self disipline there would be no problems.
OK, dropping lower than RAFP, there was a renowned member of the MPGS at Sultan in Gosport who used to single out people for car searches (normally female, for some reason), and was eventually dismissed because he kept pulling people over for speeding despite having no gun. He claimed that he "had been trained to estimate speed of vehicles!" I did ask him once if that was to help him whilst he was trying to bite their rear tyres, and he tried to take my car pass off me. Did you know that you can't take a car pass off a staff car? He didn't! Total tool.
We have the same problem in Portsmouth Dockyard at the moment with an overzealous Mod Plodder who keeps trying to impound staff cars. I foresee a short, unspectacular career......