What a load of b******ks!
As if the louts I deal with every day need any more reason to abuse my colleagues and I in the street, wether involved in an incident or not. Apparently, Scotland Yard has issued guidance to Officers instructing them not to arrest people who verbally abuse them in the streets, as the courts don’t convict them and we may have to pay out.
Wait, what? Instructions from above to not arrest people who may have committed offences? I have seen time and time again SMT changing laws and definitions of offences to fit whatever they need to achieve at that time.
Rather than passing this down from above, why not canvass the general public? Do they want the Police Officers of this country to stand there and take verbal abuse from a minority of the community, or step in and begin to retake some of the respect we have lost recently?
How long before ‘Assault PC’ is no longer an offence because we should expect it as a peril of the job? I personally will handcuff for Officer safety, and if this mockery of advice makes its way over to my end I will end up locking up for drunk and disorderly for offences under section 1 of The Attitude Act 2011!
Were it not for the common sense application of the law by rank and file officers, the risk averse senior officers and departments within the service would render the working copper powerless, left only to tick boxes like their seniors. Thankfully, there are many committed officers who apply that sense. Police Officers and the Judiciary have an opportunity to positively influence the malaise within our communities.
http://thinbluelineuk.blogspot.com/2011/06/contempt-of-cops-thin-end-of-wedge.html
Psychologist Dr Aric Sigman explored the erosion of discipline, respect and civility in the youth of the UK and the negaive effect it is having on society. He suggests that children & young people’s rights must be curtailed and a firm hand is urgently needed if they are to be properly guided into adulthood.
http://thinbluelineuk.blogspot.com/2009/09/spoiled-younger-generation-is-spoiling.html
If the Government are to start the task of fixing our society, then surely there is no better place to start than here. By instilling some firm handed forgotten disciplines within the “spoiled sector” of our youth, there will at least be a glimmer of hope that the UK may once again be a pleasant place to live.
You blank out letters as if the act of doing so assists your contention. Visit any public police blog, particularly Gadget Rabble, to see the results of a daily enema of uncensored crudities, posted by your own kind.
IMHO you reap a harvest of your own making. So have a nice day.