What good are the boys in blue..?

doesnt slow em down in CSI
- they would have had em in the slammer and bundyB fridge back in 1 hour minus ads (44min)

Agreed Jim!

When you hide on the side of the road in your speed van people rarely argue with you while you are collecting your quota.

I have had the situation where I could name the thief and give the address where it lived. The thief then argued in court that I loaned him my beer out of the locked fridge in my locked garage behind my locked gate and just forgot about it. He only used the bolt cutters because i 'forgot' to give him the key as well.
I must have done............ because I knew his name and I knew where he lived.

The fact that he was the neighbourhood serial thief and EVERYBODY knew where he lived made no difference.

Him : legal aid brief
Me: Police prosecutor
Result: No crime recorded and no beer!

Ye Gods!!


Craig

They wont attend the crime because there is no profit in it for them, rather have them out making money on fines,

I live in a small country town with escalating crime like assault/break and enter/vandalism etc. The town has been campaigning for more police and finally we got ONE lol.

The extra police officer works daylight hours only, cruising around in an unmarked car pulling over drivers and going over their vehicles and issuing infringement notices for cracked indicator covers or whatever he can find.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry....

The chit they have to go through every day?

I suppose you're right Kim.

Someone once told me; poor bloody coppers, they have to associate with scum 8 hours a day AND have to deal with crooks.

They are a most unusual breed. Not to my liking.

Jim.

Gidday Jim

I use to feel that way until I started to have a fair bit to do with coppers around five years ago. Fair enough, there are some mongrels out there, but that applies to any organisation.

All the coppers I've dealt with are fair dickum blokes, and do a lot of community time outside of work. How much do you fellas do?

The copper you talk to on the phone is under resourced. If he doesn't even have a bloody car, do you expect him to walk to the crime scene?

If your going to get stuck into anyone, send the message to the Government. Not the poor sod that has put up with the day to day crap.

Regards

Kim

hey.... if you don't like the job....leave, its that simple! they are making it harder and harder to get into the police force, so there is obviously enough people applying for the job. if you don't like it, don't want to do it, want to sit around and whinge about it, get out and find another job! but from what the police friends that i have say, they don't want to leave or they would have! for all the bad they have to put up with, they have a lot of good (perks) too!

Yeh that's right they all want to do their jobs but are underpaid, under resourced and disinterested, heard it all before and believed it until this.

Back before the cops went over to digital radio i used to monitor their channel in our area when we were in the 4wd.

There was a call about an intruder reported by a lone female occupant of a unit i think and the dispatcher wanted a car to attend. No-one responded and when she started calling individual cars they all had situations they were dealing with that needed them where they were at present.

I was thinking what a busy night, when the dispatcher came on again. "Car to attend Ocean Rd Hurstville, a report of a couple who appear to be making love in the road and are at risk of being struck by a vehicle"

Well you couldn't decipher the radio for a while as every vehicle in the LAC tried to cut across each other and grab that job.

Once the rabble calmed down and a car was assigned to the lovers, the dispatcher said "well it seems now we have enough freed up cars to attend the intruder report from before" and she assigned one of the cars that had called in.

My wife and I almost pee'd ourselves through all this as we laughed so hard and to this day I still don't know if the dispatcher was being very clever or if the lovers in the road was a real call.

Got nothing against the coppers, most are great, down to earth people, who do have to put up with crap every day to make a living. But yes as with any job, if you dont like it then leave. Dont hide behind excuses like that, but the thing is most wanna be there to make a difference in the world, and to give to the community. If they dont who will, none of us cause i bet at least 90% of people couldnt handle it. The thing i have found though is that if you dont think that you have received proper support or assistance then talk to the boss or better go down and see them in person and be polite and dont blame the cops for your bad luck. I have never been the boys in blues best friend coming from a small town and being a young rebel, but they always treated me exactly how i treated them. Yet my mates would always receive the bad end of the stick for giving lip. I always walked away rather happy and grew a good proffesional relationship with some officers that really did settle me down. now that i am a little older i really am grateful that the handful of officers had the time and made the effort to help me out and actually respect me for making the changes.

I was not a thief or anything like that just a typical young fella, Sex, Drugs, Motorcars and Fighting. And now less then 5 years later i have given them all the flick and have never felt better. Thankyou to a handful of Men that changed my life before it got any worse.