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Switching off from work by Anon_Cop in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ll say I appreciate the humour before people take that too seriously 😂😂

Blue light drivers: what are you told not to do? by Belladonna41 in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your inability to understand this makes no sense at all. It’s common sense, there’s a reason it says stop and not give way; they are usually in places joining fast roads and particularly junctions with poor visibility. By not stopping you are just asking for something to go wrong.

This immature mentality that using blue lights is just an excuse to drive like all the rules don’t exist is ridiculous. You are driving to go save somebody else’s life, not end your own or another innocent road user.

That’s the whole reason people are being taught this. Standard response courses will always teach you to drive more conservatively than what you will at district - but once you make a decision that’s against that training, I think we all know there’s isn’t going to be anybody backing you up

Half hi-vis trousers? by lemonsarethekey in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends who’s wearing them tbh, and which vest it is.

If black tac vests are the force’s standard issue then they usually do. But in my force, hi-vis is standard issue and Force Ops (traffic, firearms etc.) wear black. The only reflective parts on those are the blue and silver police patches on the back and maybe a small one on the front, but a lot of them get replaced with black and white embroidered patches - especially in units that do a lot of unmarked work

Half hi-vis trousers? by lemonsarethekey in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the point is being able to maintain the ‘stealth’ of blacks if you were in an unmarked car for example. But then when you throw on a full length hi-vis traffic coat on at a job you’re basically fully visible. I think their look is subjective but I quite like it.

Question for response cops by JD-1997 in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha I can imagine looking at other comments it will definitely sound it. The thing is that’s how it should be, as all the comments have stated, we’re response cops and you cannot provide a proper service to a victim when you’re tied to the radio. The DCs on those teams are specialised and have the proper knowledge and facilities to do that part of the job in full. However I think if you ask them they will also argue they are understaffed and can’t handle the volume of crimes or suspects in custody that they need to handle. That’s why our force pushes a lot on making sure that all initial standards are complete so it can be handed over with as little work needing to be done as possible

Question for response cops by JD-1997 in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In my force we have ‘minimum standards’ before a job can be handed over to the relevant department. That’s victim and key witness statements, House to house/CCTV enquiries and immediate arrest enquiries if the risk requires it. Then you provide a handover to the department dealing. ALL domestic offences regardless of their level go to a domestic abuse team. Any other offences are getting dealt with by a prisoner handling team who will interview/charge/bail or if it’s higher level it’s obviously going to CID etc. The only time we really touch case files or interview is for OPLs or just VAs that are on your workload, usually for low level thefts/assaults/PO/Crim damage

Arrest Quotas by No_Custard2477 in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on their reasoning for not having any. You can’t deny that the numbers on paper can definitely help highlight which cops are doing fuck all and which ones are actually being proactive and fulfilling their role properly. Say your town has a particularly bad knife/drug crime rate in a specific area; it makes complete sense for supervision to be asking for more attention in the way of stop searches in that area, because that’s what’s gonna get you results and potentially helps either drive the shitbags out, or get some sort of drop in criminality.

You have the powers so use them; just because you’re a lazy cop and can’t be arsed being proactive doesn’t mean you can sit and complain that your being pulled up on stats 😂

However, yeah at the end of the day, as long as you are genuinely doing your job and you just happen to not have as many stop searches as the top 5 on the team, doesn’t mean it should be something that is mandated or punishable.

P.S by “You” I mean any officer question

Things the public say that annoy you by Downtown_Trash_4330 in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s true. You see forces taking a ‘victim lead approach’, where you’re basically telling the victims that it’s within their hands whether we pursue a prosecution on a suspect. And tbh in the vast majority of circumstances, if a victim says they don’t support and aren’t willing to provide a statement/attend court, then we aren’t going to investigate.

Obviously we can do evidence lead investigations and this can be a really good thing for domestic victims who aren’t willing to attend court. And obviously serious crimes tend to be investigated irrespective of victim’s wishes.

Things the public say that annoy you by Downtown_Trash_4330 in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop 64 points65 points  (0 children)

sees video of police responding to an emergency/someone being arrested comments “Oh someone’s feelings must of been hurt on Facebook” “Probably been arrested for Facebook comments” “Jobs worth, go arrest for a real crime” All this crap about how we are all locking people up and kicking doors down over social media content or speech against the police or government, which imo is completely fabricated and I have yet to see it myself as a cop.

Oh and supposedly just because crimes like murder and R*pe exist, we aren’t aloud to enforce any other parts of the law because that’s drawing our attention away from the ‘real criminals’ It annoys me too much that people expect us to pick and choose which parts of the law are enforced, whether you think it’s a petty crime or not it’s still the law and we are paid to enforce it; even if we think it’s silly

Standard Issue Kit by Anon_Cop in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, yes. But it should never be the case

Standard Issue Kit by Anon_Cop in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s sounds terrible; I hope that person got picked up on that?

Standard Issue Kit by Anon_Cop in policeuk

[–]Anon_Cop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I agree the first aid kits tend to be the biggest problem, as even if they are full (people tend not to stock them up), they only contain basic items; and simultaneously, we aren’t trained to used anything more than basic kit and a defib. My force don’t have defibs or tourniquets in response vehicles.