Joining the Police

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Greendubber said:

I don't, they're selfish lazy pricks that need to step up and pull their weight. You can't just smash about on blue lights all day doing nothing.

We had a couple on one of my old teams and it caused a load of grief. You'd hear them on the radio spending more time and effort avoiding going to a job than the job would have taken.

It created a horrible atmosphere on what was a really good team that was being let down by them and it turned shouting up for jobs into a bit of a game of chess, which is ultimately crap for the person that's had to dial 999 and ask for help.

We got our controllers on side who monumentally fisted them with terrible jobs at the least appropriate times eventually..... and that was after Sgts and gaffers had mentioned it in briefings and it was being looked at, so fk em. It's not being part of a team, it's giving your oppos the middle finger and generally being a selfish sthouse.

It always makes me laugh how much time someone would spend avoiding a job when it could have been dealt with in half the time.

Bloke on my old team was always doing it. We all got dicked when he went on a driving course for a month and his work got passed to us.

Of course we dealt with the threat/risk/harm elements but then left it for him after. He was surprised...

I will go out of my way to help my colleagues. If my skipper asks(tells) me to do something I'll do it as quickly as possible and to the best of my ability.

However, my goodwill for the job has gone. I claim all my overtime or TOIL whichever I want. I take my 11 hours between shifts without fail.

However if I need to start early to target a drink driver on the school run 50 miles away...I will.