Mr AEO
I do not see how you can interpret Wanabee's thread as objecting to officers having a couple of beers with ratings. How about officers shacking up with ratings, getting p*ssed out of their minds with said ratings and subsequently indulging in a very public physical punch-up with said ratings and being arrested by the fuzz.
Is that how officers are expected to behave wherever you come from? Unfortunately in Blair's Britain this sort of behaviour seems to have become part of the job description.