undercover copper - channel 4

[shortylilly]

what did people think of the documentary on channel 4-the undercover copper? i am a criminology student and we have covered some of the issues raised in this programme, but watching this show was really disheartening and upsetting to see that such injustice and unethical standards still exist. what do others think?

[Toureman]

It's the same as all jobs, some of the workers are good, some are bad, when I was in the forces it was just the same. The police spokesman at the end could have been reading from a book with his answers, nothing will change!

[El D]

Interesting - however the woman was slightly sanctimonious. Some of the behaviour was of course unacceptable, and yet at teh same time people are people whether they wear a police uniform or not. I believe the difference lies in perception. To us, the police should be crusading against crime and acting as the first line of defence, to many of the police it is just a job - both viewpoints are valid. It did seem as if morale was quite low, it was as though they felt they could not make a difference themselves due to a variety of factors.

[youngmafbog]

Most worrying was the mountain of paperwork they are forced to do. This lowers morale faster than anything. To have to fully write up each case before the CPS will even look at it is nuts. A sheer waste of resources. Of course the CPS response was predictable - nothing wrong !!.

As for the police behavoiur, I didn't see much that I havn't seen in business. Obviously some of it was unacceptable but the documentary clearly set out to dis the police force but most of it did not warrant more than some pointed training and better supervision.

[Ward-Minter]

She was an embittered, ugly traitor who probably only moaned because the fit, young male coppers didn't give her the "sexist" attitude she long craved for.

Like all these "undercover" stories, the programme showed 1 hour (minus adverts and her in her awful house) of 6 weeks work.

When she started "mock" crying at the end saying "OOOOhhh 16 years" she lost any last traces of dignity left.

The police do a marvelous job. Big deal, they get discounted food!!!! The parking on double yellow lines in common sense as they are a reponse unit!! How much time would be wasted if they found a car park in the city centre!!!

Oh and god forbid, they play cards on the odd night shift when its quiet!!!

Her moanings about the very lame pornography was a mere statement that she would even be turned away from "Readers Wives".

Also am I alone in thinking that she was lying when she said she had a prisoner with her in the Custody suite when they were playing cricket??

On a final positive note though, she was right to complain about "The Horse" incident of the traffic cops mobile phone. Even I don't want to see that.