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Old Apr 21, 2006 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by fatherpierre
Before you post about that, you should learn the way police work.

TRAFFIC do camera stuff, and other police do the burglary, theft, abh, murder and drugs stuff.

Traffic are about 5% of police.
Police are police mate - they just dealt with offences when I was a lad...

If there are not enough of them then they need to apply some common blo0dy sense and prioritise. Currently they WILL put a trained policeman in a van for a day and tot up the revenue at 17:30. Meantime stuff that is a genuine danger to us all goes unoticed or a blind eye is turned in the name of enhancing statistics and balancing the books. I simply want proper policing back as this thread illustrates.

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Old Apr 22, 2006 | 06:47 PM
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The trained bloke who is sat in th van will be a civillian - not police.

As far as prioritising, you will find that it is done for us by the control room. We currently have about 150 jobs on the queue waiting for officers to attend with an average shift strength of about 10-15 officers. A normal shift will see anything between 100-200 new jobs which come in of various priorities (from emergency downwards). And also bare in mind that each officer has about 10-15 inquiries ongoing at any one time – and I haven’t started to mention paperwork and bureaucracy.

So, its not that we turn a blind eye. We can only work within the law, we can only be in one place at time and we are all busy - all of the time.
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Old Apr 22, 2006 | 08:50 PM
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whats the best way to deal with this twot and his un safe car? ring the council first?
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Old Apr 22, 2006 | 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by fatherpierre
Before you post about that, you should learn the way police work.

TRAFFIC do camera stuff, and other police do the burglary, theft, abh, murder and drugs stuff.

Traffic are about 5% of police.
good old demarcation!! must remember that next time i,m asked to assist with enquiries.. sorry mate i,m only the operator, the drivers gone for a cuppa!!

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Old Apr 23, 2006 | 01:36 AM
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Originally Posted by salsa-king
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whats the best way to deal with this twot and his un safe car? ring the council first?
As mentioned earlier. If its not taxed and parked on a public road then the council/DVLA should come and collect it. The owner must then present the new car tax to recover the vehicle (plus costs and fines etc)
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Old Apr 23, 2006 | 04:12 PM
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the car was back last night with a TAX disc that runs out in two months time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've ran Lichfield police this moring telling them whats going on.. and they are going to check it over
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Old Apr 23, 2006 | 04:27 PM
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Perhaps it was taxed and he's only just put the disc in? but then again the police should know this when they check it from the no. plate.
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Old Apr 23, 2006 | 05:23 PM
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Phone the police advising that a "legal" driver, has just been seen driving away at 33mph in a 30... the helicoptor and half the force will be on standby
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Old Apr 23, 2006 | 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jameswrx
Perhaps it was taxed and he's only just put the disc in? but then again the police should know this when they check it from the no. plate.
yep, the police guy said they have no record of the car having a vaild tax disc!

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Old Apr 24, 2006 | 08:08 AM
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The DVLA around bristol stick a clamp on untaxed cars and tow away if unpaid to be scrapped....
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Old Apr 24, 2006 | 08:51 AM
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Any news on the motor yet mate?
I'm only up in stafford so if you need it torching i'm up for a night out...
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Old Apr 24, 2006 | 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Felix.
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The trained bloke who is sat in th van will be a civillian - not police.

As far as prioritising, you will find that it is done for us by the control room. We currently have about 150 jobs on the queue waiting for officers to attend with an average shift strength of about 10-15 officers. A normal shift will see anything between 100-200 new jobs which come in of various priorities (from emergency downwards). And also bare in mind that each officer has about 10-15 inquiries ongoing at any one time – and I haven’t started to mention paperwork and bureaucracy.

So, its not that we turn a blind eye. We can only work within the law, we can only be in one place at time and we are all busy - all of the time.
Mate I can assure you that many forces use proper coppers as well as SRO's [safety reduction officers - talivan civvies ]. Maybe a proper copper would actually ditch the laser and chase down any clearly drunken driver he'd targeted &before they kill someone, but I somehow doubt it.

I think in fact you read me wrong and we actually agree that you need greater resources and better political focus and directive to do what people actually want rather than what out of touch Chief Cons or politicians deem best. That includes less of the paperwork that I'm sure you hate! D
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