Awwwww thanks

And here was me thinking you were a heartless Mail reader

You do seem to spend an inordonate amount of posts sniping at the cops though - and it begins to get as tiring as someone forever trying to defend every action of every one of the 110,000 Officers.

Sorry, 100,000 Officers.

Oh, hang on, 96,000 Officers.

I'll forgive you for editing the quote to take it out of context, you said sorry for doing that before and this is a TIC.

I agree, there are some Officers whose actions are without reasonable defence.

Not a great surprise when you take any group of the population with a sample size of 100,000 though.

I have enough experience of events that reached the national press to know that the Daily Mail is not a good source of balanced or fair reporting.

It does get tiresome when you bang on about how awful all these Cops are though.

From personal experience, for every rotten apple there are at least a dozen diamonds.

Oh look.

Mr Winsor is a partner in a law firm that has G4S as it's client. Part of his review suggests that policing would be more effective if more private companies were involved.

G4S are one of the companies that have been involved in bidding for contracts to provide services to police forces up and down the country.

White & Case advised G4S in their contract negotiations


So the partner in the law firm advising the company that wants to profit from policing is asked to conduct an independent review of policing and comes up with the idea of involving more private companies?

Funny old world. Who'd have thought it!

You're right of course.

Few professions are quite so vigourous at getting the bad 'uns out as the Police.

asset co ... jump on the bus , jump off the bus


just to add to the list of assetco woes

- 'Crusader' and derivative ambulances found to be unsuitable for one of their advertised uses becaude the interior mouldings were heavily overweight and a change in the fuel tank location and size by Renault made it very easy to overload the front axle

- the whole UVG / UVM debacle

other than
none medical health professionals ( i.e. Nurses / midwives and the HPC professions) who else do people count as acceptably keen at dealing with poor / bad practitioners ...

One part of the report is very contradictory.

Winsor wants to make the police service more professional, and to attract better applicants and therefore recruits.

How does reducing pay and conditions achieve that?

Defending the indefensible is no better than suggesting that one rotten apple means the whole barrel is gone.

Those on the "inside" often have a perspective that those on the "outside" don't - I can think of a story in the National Press that on the face of it appeared like the Police were officious and heavy handed (which is how the Mail reported it, funnily enough) - in fact there was a thread on here supporting the poor chap involved. But I knew that the person painted as an innocent victim had lied to cover his tracks, and was in fear that he'd be "found out" if the press dug any deeper - the Police could not disclose these facts as the case had not gone to court.

The good thing about being part of a team is that folks stand up for you, the bad thing is that you can find yourself standing up for folks who you really don't know whole lot about.

Your statements are correct. Thank you.

But it is the unremitting negativity against the cops in (pretty much) everything that you post that reduces your credibility - if you would introduce a degree of balance, it would seem more like a debate of views and less like arguing with a drunk.



RH - Make Monday, Wednesday and Saturday "Be nice to Police" days, Elroy Blue hopes to achieve the same with David Cameron.

Humour.

As in funny?

You might want to use italics to point out the difference.

I'm not really a 'LOL' kinda guy but that post genuinely had me laughing aloud.

RH