Serious question: How come, if there are 'MORE police than there have ever been'....

[Ripper]

...that there used to be officers walking the streets all over the Country and doing proper policing, but now there isn't? :confused:

What do they all do now that they didn't do before?

Or have I missed something obvious....? :confused: :confused:

[JB]

Do they not all process speeding fines?

[voodoo_melon]

They're all desk monkeys?

[Martin T]

The aount of paperwork they have to do is only ever going up.

[JB]

NO, I've got it. It's all a pile of bullshite spin from Mr Fcukface Bliar and his cronies. They've been reannouncing the same batch of 15 police officers again and again since 1997.

[voodoo_melon]

It's all a pile of bullshite spin from Mr Fcukface Bliar and his cronies.
You mean he's fibbing? :eek:

[Aitch]

You're all being a bit unfair here. Some of them leave their desks and abandon paperwork in order to go and change the rolls of film in the speed cameras. :nod:

[JB]

You mean he's fibbing? :eek:
I'm sorry to be the one that had to break it to you :(

[Ripper]

JB, I am positively mortified by that suggestion :eek:

[twinturboch]

Lazy desk jockeys! ;)

[Johnny]

paperwork, paperwork to adourn the previous paperwork, more paperwork to validate the first 2 bits of paperwork, 3 more bits of paperwork saying they followed everyguidline and wernt in anyway nasty to the mugger they just caught, some more paperwork appologising to the person for arresting them.
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and then of course the 300 bits of paperwoork they have to fill in saying why the case was dropped because they put the handcuffs on to tight and the poor little criminally wiminnaly hurt his handy wandys and now they have to let him go.

[alexjj]

You mean Tony would lie to us? What, like WMD in Iraq?

As if!!


I do have a question about Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

Why does it not really mention the lies spun by Tony Bliar when he went over to the USA? In fact it doesnt even mention us as part of the "coalition of the willing". Even though it was Tony Bliar who was responsible for getting most of the other countries on board.

Hes a silver tongued teflon coated sleaze, thats for sure.

He's still going to lose the election though.... ;)

"Loads more Police" but they arent to be seen. Why? Because they are actually all "Community Policemen" or Traffic Wardens, or counted as something else. Labour? Massaging figures? Never.... www.tonybliar.org

[DaveyBoy]

Shock horror, I was doing my delivories on Friday in a nice quiet village and you wouldn't believe it, I saw a bobby on the beat!!!! :o So shocked, I had to double take! LOL

[Scottie]

We don't have bobbies on the beat anymore. We have CSO's is it ?? Community Support Officers.

They are half the price and can do everything a police officer can do, except....

Arrest anyone, chase anyone, drive anywhere, etc, etc.

I think they can ask burglars bicely not to do it though :eek:

[kirkster]

No No No... they do exist.

Only serving meals in the houses of parliament and protecting scumbags that need life long police protection.

[JackaL]

I see them all the time...

...During the last week of each financial quarter, all the desk jockeys cops are kicked out of the office, and told to drive around aimlessly until the entire budget has been spanked on petrol and diesel - so they get as much again next quarter, to spend on donuts and shiny pens :thumbs: :rolleyes:

And I saw one this morning, driving a 'Speed Enforcement' van, no doubt off to catc... err... enforce some speeders :annoyed:

[JackaL]

I'll bet my nicest trousers that there's some spin on the numbers too.

For example, are they counting Specials? and Community Support Hofficers (or Caffiene Free Diet Coppers (tm), as I like to call them - all the copper with none of the harmful additives!).