what are my rights pls. dont want to get the police involved

Jamie_Carter

coinxoperated wrote: »

As somebody that drives past a school every single morning at 'drop off time' to ge tto my place of work, I'm not surprised he's already annoyed.

The amount of people who park up illigally and think it's ok to because they are dropping off their offspring increase each year. Even if a policeman is nearby, they still do it!

Then you have the people who just pull out without even looking because they ARE DROPPING OFF THEIR CHILDREN FOR EDUCATION!

:rotfl:

Just park somewhere else. I understand that you might not be doing anything illigal, but its obviously distressing people who live by the school. You have a car with wheels that you could park elsewhere. They have a house, it ain't gonna be moving anytime soon!

I think you need to read the first post properly.

steve-L

greenface wrote: »

Steve-L Where do you get these amazing snippits of information . Can you pop up a little linky to back this up. Thanx

I'll search later... have a go yourself in the meantime... there was a bit of reporting of the change in policy.... but I don't remember where I read it... just that I thought I was amazed that people just accepted they had been deliberately 'milked' as cash cows and had so little to say at the time.

steve-L

steve-L wrote: »

I'll search later... have a go yourself in the meantime... there was a bit of reporting of the change in policy.... but I don't remember where I read it... just that I thought I was amazed that people just accepted they had been deliberately 'milked' as cash cows and had so little to say at the time.

Sorry.... spent some time looking but haven't found it.....it could have been a broadsheet or BBC or many places.

The article I read (5-6? years ago) was not about the COST... what makes me remember it is that it was just about en environmental aspects....

I'm not knocking the environmental aspects but it faintly annoyed me that YES... it was good they had changed their advice BUT why wasn't anyone annoyed that they had set a policy of guidance to cost the consumers money (and increase pollution).

It seemed to me like they had previously set a policy we should all wear shoes 1 size too small and had just passed a new policy they wanted to be lauded for by saying we were now allowed to buy our correct size?

I'll look a bit more, if you find it though can you post it so I can reread years later!

network

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

In a word....bolllox, this woe is me paragraph makes me think something else is a foot.

forget woe is me, my feelings are from experience. having had to call the police in the past when a crime was committed against me i was not impressed when i had to remind the officer again and again that i was the victim. action was taken against the wrong doer but it was a wholly unpleasant experience.

Gavin83

Honestly, some peoples attitude to this annoys me. You don't own the road. If you have a problem with people parking in your road deal with it. Don't bother sticking notes on cars or talking them. If you don't want people parking outside your house buy a house that doesn't allow street parking outside.

I used to park on a residential road for work and regularly got into arguments with the local residents so I feel quite strongly on this.

steve-L

network wrote: »

forget woe is me, my feelings are from experience. having had to call the police in the past when a crime was committed against me i was not impressed when i had to remind the officer again and again that i was the victim. action was taken against the wrong doer but it was a wholly unpleasant experience.

My personal experience has been similar HOWEVER ....
A lot of how this 'goes' will be determined by how you act, dress and speak.

The middleclass bloke is getting a superior service because he expects one....

Police Officers are just people, like you and I.

Personally I think the organisations themselves are institutionally corrupt ... but individuals in the organisation are just people like you and me.

I wear expensive business suits for work (its part of my job) and to the chagrin of my OH Sainsbury's clothing and old clothing (I'm frequently told I have had an item for 10 years) or similar at weekends by my GF...

There is a distinct difference in how you are treated in the first 10 seconds by many (not all) police officers.
In the same way they will treat me differently if I have a child with me.

A couple of years ago I went to a local convenience store.... I was wearing weekend clothing ..... and only wanted some herbs to add to a sauce I left simmering (my OH was in the house)

I queued up (behind a police officer, a sergeant), paid and left and his partner zoomed in on me....

His partner detained me and tried to search me..... I refused the search until he said why and issued a stop and search 5090.

He wrote down I smelled of drugs.....treated me roughly and his partner arrived.

I asked his partner for his shoulder number as well. He asked why and I told him I was making a formal complaint and wished to also include the fact that he had not intervened with his junior partner.

He said it was non of his business, I reminded him it was ... I asked the junior officer to explain why he was searching me.

I informed him I was stood inches from him in the shop....(was he meant to be in the shop on duty buying a newspaper) and his partner had from across the road (15' away) decided I smelled of drugs.... either he was unable to smell 'drugs' or his partner was lying....

I had no pen, paper or phone - just a bag of basil and change from a £1..(nor any drugs). so I asked him to accompany me back to the shop where I could borrow a pen and paper to write down his shoulder number....
Strangely enough everything evaporated at this point.....
I still had the 5090 (his partner tried to get back) but I refused.
I should have followed through with an official complaint to the chief constable but hey ho......

What's the betting had I been wearing an expensive business suit I wouldn't have been stopped? :rotfl:

Real reason I got stopped is likely I was wearing a hoody (hood down) and the junior officer was bored.....

However.... you can adjust how you are treated by how you act.
I fear if you allow a previous bad experience to influence you then you will continue to get a poorer service and be a victim when you should be the one having your rights enforced.