Thursday, March 05, 2009

[british police] where did the rot set in


My mate said that Scotland Yard is now recruiting thugs. There are still many career officers out there but they're gradually being pensioned off.

Some time back, the Telegraph wrote:

It is no exaggeration to say that Sir Paul takes over at a point of crisis in policing. It is in danger of slipping away from the people it is meant to serve. The middle classes who would, until fairly recently, have supported the police through thick and thin are increasingly disenchanted with what they see.

This is not entirely the fault of the police, though the activities of some senior officers, including Sir Paul's predecessor Sir Ian Blair, are partly to blame. The culpability lies predominantly with the Government and its imposition of targets on the police that actually make it less likely that they do the job most of us want to see.

I'd have described myself as basically pro-police but various incidents highlight the growing dissatisfaction with our bobbies. Mind you, they're on a hiding to nothing and have to do some unpalatable things these days. Another problem is that they have to do the dirty work for this appalling government and by 2012, may even have to fire on white, British, middle-class people who are p---ed off with what's happened.

In 2006, this blog began with the point of view that we are heading for a dystopia imposed by Them and nothing I've subsequently seen alters that view in the slightest. The difference between us is that you blame Brown and the incompetent government but I sheet it home to the Armani suited bstds behind them, predominantly living in Bavaria and Switzerland and with chapters in Scotland.

Sorry to be a bit out of sorts today.

7 comments:

  1. Well, for me the rot set in when nice Andy Crawford, Dixon's son-in-law in "Dixon of Dock Green" joined the CID and got too big for his boots. Seriously, I think Ian Blair should have gone ages before he did and a lot of harm was done during his regime. The Stephen Lawrence case was appalling and opened a real can of worms. So there has been something rotten in sections of Britain's police for a long time. This is hard on the majority of police officers who put their lives at risk out there every day and take a lot of insults that the rest of us wouldn't put up with. It's all very well for any giovernment to say they support the police - they have to put some money where their mouths are and pay them decently.

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  2. It is the rules coming down from the top that have made this happen, and the fact that most people don't think and question but just get on with it!

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  3. James,

    The cops have always been crap.

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  4. If you want to know the time ask a pliceman, comes from Victorian times, when the police would rob drunks they found of their watches.

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  5. The police always have all sorts in them.

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  6. You can't expect a group of lower-middle-class ordinary men and women to be able to shoulder the problems that decades of governmental incompetence and chronic social engineering have wrought without consequences.

    You have to be made of Iron to endure modern policing.

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  7. Thanks, Welshcakes.

    The fish stinks at the head, Cherie.

    Martin - hmmm.

    Gadgie - :)

    Hottie - yep.

    Wolfie - and we aren't, of course.

    Gadgie and Hottie?

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