Excuse Me Constable . Police Stop and Accountability Check

Excuse Me Constable . Police Stop and Accountability Check

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nigel_bytes

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557 posts

235 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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"Doing unto them as they do unto us" was the motivation for this video says cameraman Matt, as he turns the tables on the local constabulary and convinces them to perform a basic vehicle inspection.

Huge THANKS to police Constable Cawley for being such a great sport !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjY-PHvL4c

Enjoy !

Greendubber

13,129 posts

202 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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I've seen this, fair play to the bobby for playing along with it and entertaining the guy. Better than ignoring him and driving off which I think most would have done leavihg him free to rant about it on the internet.

Pete102

2,042 posts

185 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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yeh great. Not AT ALL a waste of police time. Kudos to the officer for handling it in a mature and sensible manner.

cjb1

2,000 posts

150 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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nigel_bytes said:
"Doing unto them as they do unto us" was the motivation for this video says cameraman Matt, as he turns the tables on the local constabulary and convinces them to perform a basic vehicle inspection.

Huge THANKS to police Constable Cawley for being such a great sport !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjY-PHvL4c

Enjoy !
That was brilliant, and yes, the Bobby was a great sport and handled the situation very well.

Rovinghawk

13,300 posts

157 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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As a PR exercise he's probably done massive good for his force. Wisdom belying his years.

smegmore

3,091 posts

175 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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thumbup

I'm not shy of having a pop at bib if need be but the young copper there accounted for himself very well.

kudos.

ikarl

3,730 posts

198 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Good on him!

Galveston

708 posts

198 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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What possesses people to behave like that?

smegmore

3,091 posts

175 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Galveston said:
What possesses people to behave like that?
payback? scratchchin

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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I liked that. He's OK. What constabulary and police station?

Galveston

708 posts

198 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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smegmore said:
payback? scratchchin
Payback for being a complete fkwit and having no friends?

Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Well done to the copper, but I suspect after that video the cameraman jumped back into his Austin Metro and returned to his lonely bedsit, the only company being a computer still running XP and a suspiciously sticky copy of the Next lingerie catalogue. Jesus what a loser. Calling the constable sunshine? Come on.

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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The guy is a tit, fair play to the policeman for not getting annoyed.

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Could there be a serious side to this?

SpitfireMk3 has previously posted that they're not allowed to change bulbs in police cars and they have to be left for the garage to replace, leaving a vehicle out of service. When police forces are trying to squeeze every penny out of their resources and assets is putting a vehicle out of service for the sake a bulb an acceptable way to manage vehicles?

Do all officers always check that the bulbs are working in their vehicles before leaving police station car parks?

I don't suppose a former traffic officer has ever said to me 'You can usually find at least one thing wrong with a vehicle'? Has a non-traffic officer said when discussing Big Brother and ID Cards, 'You can usually find something on everyone if you look long enough and hard enough'? Do unto others.....

Hypothetically couldn't a police car be rear ended on the entrance to a roundabout or at a junction, and the person that hits the police vehicle say 'I did accidently drive into the police car, but it did have a brake light out so.....'

What more grievous to the image and reputation of the police? 14272 behaving like that or a police vehicle driving around with a defective light?

I'm being exceedingly anal or I'm just behaving like some overly pedantic, yeah, but no, but yeah jobsworth uniformed type that's fully prepared to dance on the head on the needle to prove their point and not be seen to be wrong?

Payback? Could this decent young man be getting it in the neck for the behaviour of some other police officers that may have once stopped a driver in the middle of the night on a quiet B road and rooted through their car looking for stuff and leaving them to put the spare wheel and jack back into their car in the pitch black as the police officers have had their fun, or got called away? Every MoP has a nice torch like police officers?

The way that officer has behaved offsets how many police cars driving around with defective lights? I think 14272 probably didn't have to do a four week course to know how to behave like that unlike the four week course Man Mountain 767 Big Jim did to know when to put the blue lights on Police Interceptors a few months ago. Reiterating the point made by Rovinghawk, 14272 has made amends for 767's conduct on TV IMO.

Making another comparison with Man Mountain, Big Jim 767 would the person behind the camera behaved like that if it was two larger, older, more experienced officers rather than this lone, fresh faced officer?

Couldn't 14272 have ticked a 'public engagement' box after that encounter? Or would that have been fiddling the crime statistics?

Galveston

708 posts

198 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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carinaman said:
Could there be a serious side to this?
No.

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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When this thread mentions a fault with the systems in the police car:

http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...

And this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7448410.st...

Defects in police vehicles can undermine public confidence in the police and potentially lead to doubts over truthfulness.

Snowboy

8,028 posts

150 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Mixed feelings on this one.
On one hand it's an amusing bit of good police PR.

On the other hand the guy doing it was a tt, and did it for malicious reasons.
Did he really call the cop 'sunshine', does he think cops do that to drivers on routine stops.

The police are answerable to the public.
But that doesn't mean every fkwit with a camera and a chip on their shoulder should be pandered to when they try something like this.

whoami

13,151 posts

239 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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HTP99 said:
The guy is a tit, fair play to the policeman for not getting annoyed.
yes

Martin4x4

6,506 posts

131 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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This is a great example of a the sort of Police officer I want to see, polite professional and tolerant of public scrutiny.

Edited by Martin4x4 on Friday 18th April 11:42

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Martin4x4 said:
This is a great example of a the sort of Police officer I want to see, polite professional and tolerant of public scrutiny.
+1

I'd place him leagues ahead of my Chief Constable. I don't think the officer did anything wrong.