Astonishing claim by Brunstrom
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Read to the bottom and see Brunstrom claim he can run rings around his "bunch of amateurs" Police Authority.
Report from the Daily Post reads.......
I haven't met a single person who supports Arrive Alive
Sep 22 2004
By Tom Bodden, Daily Post
NORTH Wales' top cop is given too easy a ride by a watchdog over his controversial speed campaign, it was claimed last night.
An ex-senior officer plus a former traffic cop say the Police Authority takes the side of chief constable Richard Brunstrom against public opinion.
But the watchdog's chairman Malcolm King last night strongly denied it was "in the chief constable's pocket".
The Wrexham councillor said: "It's bizarre logic to suggest that if we agree with anything the chief constable is doing, we aren't doing our job.
"The vast majority of people I talk to support the Arrive Alive initiative"
The Arrive Alive speed campaign criticism came in a BBC Radio 4 documentary Who Runs the Police? broadcast last night.
Phil Edwards of Colwyn Bay, a cop for 30 years, said: "I haven't yet spoken to one single person who supports the campaign.
"The public seem to be on one side of the argument. The Police Authority and the chief constable are on the other side," added Mr Edwards, who was also Police Federation secretary. "That's not good for democracy, it's not good for policing, it's not good for the public."
Elfed Roberts, who retired as the force's assistant chief constable in 2000, told the programme police and authority members are too close.
"At the risk of being unkind about it, it was a standing joke at one time among the police officers who attended Police Authority meetings that if certain individuals left the room temporarily, the general IQ level in the room rose "If anyone outside questions or begins to criticise the chief officer or the force, what you very quickly find is that the Police Authority rally round."
Mr Brunstrom told the programme: "It's very difficult for a police authority of course, which is a bunch of amateurs in a sense, ordinary local people, without being at all condescending, to hold a professional organisation to account.
"I've got 25 years experience in the police. I feel very comfortable with my knowledge of my role and the law.
"It's very easy, you could say, for me to run rings round a bunch of amateurs. "But in practice it's not like that because I have to stand up in public with the press listening and justify what I'm doing with public money and the results that we're producing."
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Read to the bottom and see Brunstrom claim he can run rings around his "bunch of amateurs" Police Authority.
Report from the Daily Post reads.......
I haven't met a single person who supports Arrive Alive
Sep 22 2004
By Tom Bodden, Daily Post
NORTH Wales' top cop is given too easy a ride by a watchdog over his controversial speed campaign, it was claimed last night.
An ex-senior officer plus a former traffic cop say the Police Authority takes the side of chief constable Richard Brunstrom against public opinion.
But the watchdog's chairman Malcolm King last night strongly denied it was "in the chief constable's pocket".
The Wrexham councillor said: "It's bizarre logic to suggest that if we agree with anything the chief constable is doing, we aren't doing our job.
"The vast majority of people I talk to support the Arrive Alive initiative"
The Arrive Alive speed campaign criticism came in a BBC Radio 4 documentary Who Runs the Police? broadcast last night.
Phil Edwards of Colwyn Bay, a cop for 30 years, said: "I haven't yet spoken to one single person who supports the campaign.
"The public seem to be on one side of the argument. The Police Authority and the chief constable are on the other side," added Mr Edwards, who was also Police Federation secretary. "That's not good for democracy, it's not good for policing, it's not good for the public."
Elfed Roberts, who retired as the force's assistant chief constable in 2000, told the programme police and authority members are too close.
"At the risk of being unkind about it, it was a standing joke at one time among the police officers who attended Police Authority meetings that if certain individuals left the room temporarily, the general IQ level in the room rose "If anyone outside questions or begins to criticise the chief officer or the force, what you very quickly find is that the Police Authority rally round."
Mr Brunstrom told the programme: "It's very difficult for a police authority of course, which is a bunch of amateurs in a sense, ordinary local people, without being at all condescending, to hold a professional organisation to account.
"I've got 25 years experience in the police. I feel very comfortable with my knowledge of my role and the law.
"It's very easy, you could say, for me to run rings round a bunch of amateurs. "But in practice it's not like that because I have to stand up in public with the press listening and justify what I'm doing with public money and the results that we're producing."
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Streetcop said:
I like him....don't know why..but I do...he's tanned...tall...distinguished...top of the tree...that's it for now...back to the padded room..
Street
Ach So! Hab's geklappt! So was einfach .....
You mean as in FAKE! hahaha! Liebchen! Gotcha!
course - the glazed look .....either thought of power, money ...... and of course road humps are closet he gets to er..... or perhaps .....there is more to his views on heroin that meets his cock eyes ..... Well ... someone had to say it .....
>> Edited by WildCat on Wednesday 22 September 21:45
mybrainhurts said:
Arrogant twat.
Maybe natural justice will prevail during one of his cliff walks......
How is a police authority appointed? Can't the weeds be replaced?
So he does cliff walks. Why don't one of you BiBs talk him into coming up to Glencoe and I'll take him up Nan Bidean. We'll see how tough he is hanging on a rope with 1500 ft of fresh air below him.
Brunstrom said:
It's very difficult for a police authority of course, which is a bunch of amateurs in a sense, ordinary local people, without being at all condescending, to hold a professional organisation to account.
I've got 25 years experience in the police. I feel very comfortable with my knowledge of my role and the law.
That is quite simply the most breathtaking arrogance I've ever seen from a supposed 'public servant'. Daddy knows best, now run along and play with your toys...truly astonishing. If ever there was a case for swift removal of a person from a position of power, this surely must be it.
k all about real life and the world that we live in. He'll go far in politics.Brunstrom is not tall.
Last year he was interviewed by HTV on Colwyn Bay beach with two police officers. It was a point of amusement that he had picked his two shortest constables so that he would look taller!
Also, having been within 6 feet of him, I can confirm that he is no taller than average. Certainly, he is not physically imposing, it is only his ego that is huge.
He still reminds me of David Icke every time he opens his mouth.
Last year he was interviewed by HTV on Colwyn Bay beach with two police officers. It was a point of amusement that he had picked his two shortest constables so that he would look taller!
Also, having been within 6 feet of him, I can confirm that he is no taller than average. Certainly, he is not physically imposing, it is only his ego that is huge.
He still reminds me of David Icke every time he opens his mouth.
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