Traffic Cops Channel 5

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Vipers said:

What irritates me is after the ads, they recap on what you have just seen, WHY??????

Get on with the programme FFS.

Agreed! it's to fill the time, otherwise it would be a 50 minute show.

[eldar]

I record it. Skip the repeated bits and ads, 30 mins.

[Alickadoo]

eldar said:

I record it. Skip the repeated bits and ads, 30 mins.

BBC stuff if I can't watch it live, I get it on catch up. All the commercial channels I record and jump through the ads. 3, 4 or 5 minutes at a time. Makes you wonder how many people are watching ads. What with putting the kettle on or going for a pee.

[siremoon]

Vipers said:

What irritates me is after the ads, they recap on what you have just seen, WHY??????

Get on with the programme FFS.

In our house we call Traffic Cops and Interceptors "Coming up" and "Still to come" respectively. Traffic Cops used to be on BBC1 when it first started and it managed to fill an hour then so I don't think it's wholly filler. My theory is it reveals Ch5's opinion of the attention span of its audience. The pre-advert "coming up" bit being an attempt to prevent channel hopping when the ads come on and the recaps after the ads being for the benefit of newly arrived channel hoppers.

Whatever the reason it is extremely annoying.

[droopsnoot]

eldar said:

I record it. Skip the repeated bits and ads, 30 mins.

And me, for all commercial TV. I know I can skip the first two minutes, then usually five or six at each commercial break, and the "skip" button on my BT box jumps a minute at a time.

[Alickadoo]

siremoon said:

In our house we call Traffic Cops and Interceptors "Coming up" and "Still to come" respectively. Traffic Cops used to be on BBC1 when it first started and it managed to fill an hour then so I don't think it's wholly filler. My theory is it reveals Ch5's opinion of the attention span of its audience. The pre-advert "coming up" bit being an attempt to prevent channel hopping when the ads come on and the recaps after the ads being for the benefit of newly arrived channel hoppers.

Whatever the reason it is extremely annoying.

"In our house we call Traffic Cops and Interceptors "Coming up" and "Still to come" respectively."

Or "previously".

[droopsnoot]

Another parade of "no further action" last night.

[SistersofPercy]

droopsnoot said:

Another parade of "no further action" last night.

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

[GetCarter]

SistersofPercy said:

droopsnoot said:

Another parade of "no further action" last night.

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

...and the nut in the Focus must have left his DNA all over the airbag, proving he was the driver.

[SydneyBridge]

SistersofPercy said:

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

The driver got off very lightly as well, he knew exactly what was going on
Not sure i would have wanted to eat any of meat after it had been returned to the shop...

[nicanary]

We are actually discussing an episode of Police Interceptors rather than this topic Traffic Cops. Pedantry.......

[SydneyBridge]

They all roll into one, especially when one at 7pm and the other at 8pm

[thetapeworm]

SydneyBridge said:

The driver got off very lightly as well, he knew exactly what was going on
Not sure i would have wanted to eat any of meat after it had been returned to the shop...

The shop would have had to bin it - once it's left the store and they have no idea what temperatures it's been subjected to it becomes a risk and in the bin it goes.

As said above I'm amazed the two from the Focus just got away with that, it sends a really bad message.

[SydneyBridge]

Was the Focus stolen?

[Vipers]

SydneyBridge said:

SistersofPercy said:

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

The driver got off very lightly as well, he knew exactly what was going on
Not sure i would have wanted to eat any of meat after it had been returned to the shop...

Hopefully it was ditched, I once got as far as check out and asked the operator if I could leave some meat behind, bought in error, she said no it had been out of the cooler too long..............

But it begs the question of why not prosecute, but then again reading today some of the egits who painted something else with orange paint may not get to court for TWO years due to the backlog.

[GetCarter]

SistersofPercy said:

droopsnoot said:

Another parade of "no further action" last night.

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

The criminal justice system is so overloaded, understaffed and underfunded these days that most crimes get waved aside, only complete certainties are given the go ahead by the CPS. It's a bloody disgrace (and yes it's the Tories that have done us, yet again).

[eldar]

GetCarter said:

SistersofPercy said:

droopsnoot said:

Another parade of "no further action" last night.

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

The criminal justice system is so overloaded, understaffed and underfunded these days that most crimes get waved aside, only complete certainties are given the go ahead by the CPS. It's a bloody disgrace (and yes it's the Tories that have done us, yet again).

Yet the prisons are overflowing, increasingly so.

[GetCarter]

eldar said:

GetCarter said:

SistersofPercy said:

droopsnoot said:

Another parade of "no further action" last night.

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

The criminal justice system is so overloaded, understaffed and underfunded these days that most crimes get waved aside, only complete certainties are given the go ahead by the CPS. It's a bloody disgrace (and yes it's the Tories that have done us, yet again).

Yet the prisons are overflowing, increasingly so.

...and the 10,000 new prison places promised in 2019 are where?

(along with the 40 new hospitals!)

[siremoon]

GetCarter said:

The criminal justice system is so overloaded, understaffed and underfunded these days that most crimes get waved aside, only complete certainties are given the go ahead by the CPS. It's a bloody disgrace (and yes it's the Tories that have done us, yet again).

Easy to blame the tories for everything but they don't make day to day management decisions inside the CPS. As for "complete certainties", a recent case I was involved in was pursued relentlessly by the CPS way beyond what was appropriate and they were heavily criticised by a senior judge for wasting public money, their own time and the court's time in doing so.

My view is they get bees in their collective bonnets or tunnel vision about certain cases irrespective of the chances of success and deploy disproportionate resources to those cases and thus don't pursue other cases with a better evidential basis such as some of those seen in these RPU fly-on-the-wall programmes. That's down to management not politicians.

[Megaflow]

SydneyBridge said:

SistersofPercy said:

How the hell do you have a bloke walking out of the Co-Op with that much meat on CCTV and not be able to prosecute?

The driver got off very lightly as well, he knew exactly what was going on
Not sure i would have wanted to eat any of meat after it had been returned to the shop...

This is exactly what I was referring to in my post on the previous page. The shop owner reported a crime of shop lifting, which they have done nothing with. But they have chosen to prosecute the driver, more than likely because it is easier and requires less effort.

I bet the shop manager and owners couldn’t care less about the driving charge, but want so deterrent for the stealing.

It strikes me you can now do what you like in this country, but don’t even think about doing it in a car!