Originally Posted by Laarbruch72
Don't mind the humour one bit Jopsy. That's actually a fairly funny joke, keep them coming by all means.
What disturbs me is the incident you mention. Can you not be more specific about the said incident? If not then fair enough, but I can hardly reply to that with any credence can I?
Interview against the rules? Do you not know that you have rights? (And every copper has to show you a paper copy every time you are interviewed? It's the law. Ask next time you're in the clink, although you should have been informed of your rights anyway!)
And contary to belief, there are no such thing as stats. We don't get extra pay / promotion / up the pecking order etc from doing people for no good reason. There are stats yes. But only on crime figures on each station so we can best see how to target resources.
I was specifically talking about the dreaded (and much vaulted) radar gun. I was just trying to defend the poor young guys who, under Harrys' orders have to go out and cop all the **** for Harrys' own policies.
As I said guys. It's easy to blast the 18 year old LAC/A/Cpl for being a **** or whatever, but try asking Gp Capt Harry why he sends those same guys out. I somehow doubt that you would.
Mind how you go,
Laar.
Interesting Laar. The RN Police, when undergoing training at Whale Island, used to be given quotas to fill each day as part of the training regime. They would be bussed down to the dockyard and told to collect a certain amount of names and offences. They don't do the same when they are qualified.
We have a different system in that our guys cannot join as Police, they have to transfer after a few years in. As for interviews, I have been in a couple where the correct procedure has not been followed, and I have had a couple of our Police (that I actually get on fairly well with, having worked with SIB on some specialist cases) admit that if they think they can put the pressure on before enlightening the guilty bastard (sorry, suspect), they will.