RAF Police
 

Hello All,

I am thinking about joining the RAF and I want to join as an RAF policeman.

Has anyone got any tips and advice for me?

Thanks,

Andy

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Of all the questions to ask! This is going to be amusing:eek:

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As an officer?

There are no RAF Police officers.

As an airman?

Go ahead and ask the AFCO or a car park attendant.

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Andy,
Do a search for RAF Police on here. That might answer your question. In short, they are very unpopular.

PS As you can write, spell and punctuate, you would be over qualified.

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Its quite simple if you want to be very unpopular with everyone, sit around all day doing nothing then become an RAF copper.

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Barrier goes up . . . .. . barrier goes down . . .. . . ;)

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Couldn't agree more with the responses so far - if you want to become deeply unpopular, carry on and join the RAFP!

I'm sure it may be an apocryphal story, but I did once hear of an RAFP flight sgt who charged himself for being late for work; that's the mentality you'd be dealing with...:confused: :eek:

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Most unfair quote... one section of the RAFP are overwhelmingly friendly and professional :) Andy - I do assume you have 4 legs, a tail and bark ;)

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Please please please please please... don't!:eek:

I would rather slam my johnson in a car door than be an RAF policeman.:E

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You'll need to develop:

1) An enormously inflated sense of self importance,

2) A thick skin,

3) An enormously inflated sense of self importance

4) 'Eagle Eyes' for checking all of the tax discs on camp "Just in case"

5) An enormously inflated sense of self importance

6) An elasticated waist band,

7) An enormously inflated sense of self importance

8) An intense dislike of other human beings


Hope this helps:ok:

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ProfessionalStudent,

I agree,

And I've slammed my johnson in a car door!:p :p

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Ooh! Nasty Rocketman!

Got it caught in my zip once... Got the zipper all the way to the top too. Only one solution from that situation... That smarted a bit...:eek:

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You have to be able to apprehend villains who jump through circles of fire and escape through plastic tubes and slalom courses.

Looking like the Chf Wiggum out of the Simpsons seems to be the entry criteria.

PA

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If you are interested in real and interesting police work then why don't you join the real police force and not the pretend RAF one.

If you are just keen on joining the RAF and are just looking for a branch then why not choose one which requires at least half a brain.

Everyone else is right by the way - they are ALL t*£ts

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I think not!far to complicated for Them that the job of the dog!!!:}

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Come on lets keep this one going until we get a bite from a plod type!! ;)

To the original poster, whatever floats your boat mate, one tip though, I am not sure how they dress it up at the careers office but it my best advice would be to go and do some work experience at your nearest base and just see what they do/don't do. Far be it from us to tell you that you are wrong to want to do it, after all someone has to!

Good luck

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From my dealings with them (mostly ATSy), the more senior (SNCO) scuffers were not a bad bunch, it was the young self-important acting Cpl's you had to watch out for....

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Wycombe
You mean the ones who try to hide themselves away out of sight whilst making notes on the alcoholic consumption going on around them.

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Next time you see yor mother, ask her for positive ID, in fact, INSIST ON IT. If she fails to produce ID she is not your mother!
Same applies for everyone else you know and recognise.

RAFP? :mad: :mad: :mad:

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I find it highly ammuzing that he's actually asked on here if he should become a scuffer or not!!!!!

Gate up gate down??? when was the last time anyone actually saw a copper on the gate? they're far too busy trying to catch the criminal masterminds that have an out of date car pass...........

If you want everyone to hate you, sit alone in the mess and drink in your own little bar, cos no-one wants to drink with you - its the job for you.:}

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Now I ask myself, what response if Andy had wanted to be a Mover ? :hmm:

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Or Regt, for that matter:ouch:

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For the love of Big G - go and lie down, count to 10 (that makes you over qualified for a start) and don't even think of it:\
I'd volunteer to be a traffic warden first. At least they get off their ar#es to really pi## undeserving folk off.
You really would be more use as an aircraft chock or an ash-tray. It would also be a more exciting life:{
If you still wish to do this please have a vasectomy
This was the scariest thing I have EVER seen on Pprune:eek:

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Bite from a plod type.............

As many of you know, I am a plod type, but of the civilian variety.

RAFP? Well, to the sgt that bawled me out for producing a cover note for my car at Cranwell, rather than a full certificate of insurance, when technically I was still actually a civilian, you embodied everything that these fine people think.

that said, if the enquirier were to join and make it his/her life's work to improve things.....

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It was once described to me as:

You join: You raise and lower the barrier.
You get promoted: You tell someone else to raise and lower the barrier.
You get commisioned: You tell someone else to tell someone else to raise and lower the barrier. :ok:

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I wanted to be RAFP, but I passed the exam...

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I can't believe that I even opened this thread.....

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you can say that again !!!! :p

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Hate to stand up for them, but once had a serious amount of water poured on flames by a certain WRAF OC Plod after a bit of a drive-car-through-mess-whoops-it's-spontaneously-combusted sort of incident one happy hour. :hmm:
If you're going to be a plod like that then good on you; need more of your sort. :ok:

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Hi andy
Just curious as to why you started this thread?

RAF Pilot question

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=203776

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This HAS to be a wind up...

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It is a wind up.

See above

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Whether it is a wind-up or not, I have enjoyed this thread immensely. So much so, that I am going to read it all again.


Conan

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Wow is the weather particularly bad in the Cotswolds?

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I do agree with conan. Nothing for the soul quite as good as a bit of plod bashing.

Course, SIB will have sneeked all of our identities out and we'll all be in for it next week.:E

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In that case,

I, The Rocket, would formally like to state that the slamming of my JOHNSON in a car door, was a complete fabrication, and I was in no way suggesting that the aforementioned slamming was in any way comparable, or indeed preferable, to being an RAF Policeman.





You're still a bunch of kno88ers mind:*

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!:p

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Windup aside, part of me wants to defend them because the brother-in-law is one. Then I remember my brother-in-law and can only shake my head and agree that they are indeed kn*bs.

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...who go out of their way to do people for speeding :mad:

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Why don't you go to the interview and try and nick something?

That should be good for a laff.