Met Police Allowed To Knock Moped Thieves Off Bikes, About Blooming Time

[Baldric]

https://home.bt.com/news/met-police-allowed-to-knock-moped-thieves-off-bikes-at-high-speed-91364312581785

[dannyk13]

Sandy, as the scooter continues to travel forward after impact it is highly unlikely that the rider is going to end up under a wheel.

[aelmpvw]

hopefully the scallies will receive a bill for any damage done to the police cars ...

[-Talbot-]

Well, if it has attacked your cabbages.

[naomi24]

Some butterflies!

[retrocop]

Don't get me wrong.Any method that gets these mopeds robbers off the streets gets my vote. However the day comes when a moped rider parts company with the machine and mounts the pavement killing a pedestrian then the lawyers and public will have a field day .
Only two nights ago there were two cases cited on ITV News at 10 whereby relatives of innocent loved ones killed in a bandit chase were asking for police to be brought to book and charged.
This is not one off. I speak from experience as a former Class 1 Traffic
Officer who was trained in Bandit pursuit driving etc.
If, during the course of a police pursuit or answering an Emergency call a traffic collision occurred involving a innocent party then it was classified a 'Vicinity Only Polacc'. This involved the police driver suspended from driving duties pending an investigation.
I have great mistrust of Politicians and senior politicians trumpeting their new initiatives until the first complaint comes in then watch them back peddle and leave the 'specially trained officers' hanging out to dry.

[ToraToraTora]

tilly: "What if somebody dies? " - well assuming it's one of the thieving scum then result.

[10ClarionSt]

Retro, my friend was also a Class 1 Traffic Officer. He regularly patrolled the North Section of the M62 in Manchester. This was in the early 70's, when the M62 had first opened opened. No central barriers; no lighting. It was a total death trap. One section, between J16 & J17 was well known as Death Valley, which was very appropriate. People were killed there every week. And who was it that always copped for the "Deathograms"? My mate. It got to him in the end. Every week having to go and tell someone that their son/father/daughter was dead after having helped to drag their mangled bodies from the wreckage, then having to write write it all up, with the images still in his mind.
A policemans' lot is not a happy one.

[retrocop]

Clarion
Partly why a policeman's humour can be quite macabre and very much misunderstood. The piece you wrote about pulling mangled bodies out of wrecks does chime with me.

[dannyk13]

Clarion //"Deathograms//
Strikes a chord with me.I have recipients call me a liar when they receive this news and even been assaulted by the widow a couple of times.Must be the worst job that a copper has to face.

[10ClarionSt]

There were other things he told me, that were quite gruesome. I once asked him why he was telling me these things, as I knew he didn't tell anyone else. He said he got the impression that I wasn't affected by what he was saying, and he could talk about it. Maybe I was an outlet valve for his feelings?

[retrocop]

Danny
I once had to tell a dear old Irish couple that their heavily addicted heroin addict daughter had died in a squat in Bristol. You could see a light shine in their faces as they were told as they suffered much at her hands. Violence and theft to feed her habit. She was well known to us at Paddington Green.They felt quite relieved and stated she was at peace and found rest. They even shared a few nips of Jamesons with me.
Later on that day I received a message from the nick to return to the address and tell parents there had been a almighty cock up by Avon and Somerset police and daughter was recovering in Frenchay hospital and due to mistaken identity in the squat it was another young woman who had died.
I was less than happy to go back but they lived on my beat. They burst out crying when I explained the mistake and it wasn't tears of joy either. :-(

[dannyk13]

Retro, never met a colleague who didn't hate having to deliver this news.

[fender62]

give the police guns and a shoot to kill policy for moped gangs, with no recourse to the law, soon nip that problem in the bud, same for drug dealing stabbers in london and elsewhere, with deportation of said families..if they are not legalized brits.

[Theland]

Twenty years for these attacks. Build more prisons. More secure, harsher, and get these court sentences put into oblivion.
Stronger sentences all around.
Stop pandering to to the minority scum!

[-Talbot-]

https://tinyurl.com/yaqfmhlc

[wolf63]

Talbot - I was just going to post that. It amused me. ☺