Good policing or just invasive?

Rolandtheroadie

Did you get that business insurance sorted out ok then?

londonTiger

goonarmy wrote: »

What van was it? Riot van? Im guessing Tsg or whatever they call them selves now. Ive seen a lot worse of them.

i googled tsg, yes you're right it was exactly like that. not a ford transit but a different make and is much more cube shaped rear.

Police convinced himself I was either a thief or if I wasn't I had done something else wrong before he even spoke to me.

TrickyWicky

A bit invasive to be honest but you have to look at it from their POV too:

You could have broken into the car and been trying to ransack it. For all they know you were a theif in someones just-pinched motor.

If that had been a crook who'd just nicked your car you'd be singing their praises about how quickly they found it.

Swings and roundabouts if you ask me. I got tugged once by a rozzer on the M55 who was determined to bust me for no insurance. I got a 40 minute grilling in the back of his panda car and when it's gone midnight that ain't funny when you got over 300 miles to drive to get home. Real arrogant bloke but when he realised I was genuine and he had given me a hard time for nothing he was alright.. after I'd would him right up lol

paddedjohn

maninthestreet wrote: »

I person is robbed, a car is stolen...

2. To take valuable or desired articles unlawfully from: rob a bank.





Sort yourself out, a car can be robbed just the same as a bank can, doesn't have to be person.

goonarmy

londonTiger wrote: »

i googled tsg, yes you're right it was exactly like that. not a ford transit but a different make and is much more cube shaped rear.

Police convinced himself I was either a thief or if I wasn't I had done something else wrong before he even spoke to me.

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/billkatygemma/5818912327/
One of these?

Jamie_Carter

Building_Surveyor wrote: »

Hahha! What a joke. You've obviously never been stopped by the police who tHemselves can have a attitude problem, desperate to make an arrest over anything.

I am a woman and I have been in a situation where I've been stopped by two rookie officers with a chip on their solider desperate to meet the nights targets of x amount of arrests so pulled me over for absolutely nothing. Yes nothing... Only to ask me where I was driving to or coming from... Non of their business frankly but I complied, only to be sent on my merry way after 15minutes of pointless banter.

Frankly, a bad attitude is not illegal. I could be the rudest person in the world. If I haven't broken the law, sod off!

You make a lot of assumptions. Unless they decide to tell you the reason they stopped you, then you have no way of knowing.

And what difference does it make that you are a woman?

Jamie_Carter

Firstimer wrote: »

lol they got nothing better to do then waste our time

And if they had stopped someone who had stolen your vehicle, would your opinion be different??

Jamie_Carter

Building_Surveyor wrote: »

Hahah your posts get even funnier..Quite clearly you did not read my post. Where in my post did I say I had an attitude???? So if it's now illegal to have an attitude... Does that mean in my situation the officer should have been arrested himself?... If you re read it you will find I said I complied with everything they asked. So how did I fail that test exactly?

Secondly if my car was reported stolen then there would be a reason to stop it.

Stolen vehicles are often recovered before the owner even knows it has been stolen.

Jamie_Carter

Paradigm wrote: »

I don't think there are many who object to spot checks or questions if the police think there's possibly something dodgy going on, it's how these stops/checks are conducted.

In my last job I finished work at around 2am & it was a fairly regular thing to be stopped on my way home for a "where are you going, where have you been" check, I have no problem with that.

What I do have a problem with is that, if 95% of the officers I've dealt with can be polite why do the other 5% treat me like a suspected terrorist before I've opened my mouth?

Attitude goes both ways, I'm always polite (friendly even) but that can change if I run into one of the rare sour faced, jumped up !!!!!!!

Unfortunately these people exist in all walks of life.

Jamie_Carter

londonTiger wrote: »

There are a lot of insurance checks on vehicles in the area. i have no problem with them and have gladly handed over my license while sat in the drivers seat. the police were polite and even reminded me to put my seatbelt back on as they handed the driving license back.

The problem here was the police had a serious attitude problem. Didn't give me the benefit of doubt. Thought he was the einstein of judging human psychology. I was in a bit of a shock to have police surrounding me, one looking through my windows in a torch and the other asking what I was doing - which naturally made me alarmed/look nervous which he interpreted as being up to no good.

There was no reason to ask me to get out of the vehicle. I would not have been able to drive off anywhere because I was boxed in by the police van. He thought I was a crook and was !!!! sure about it and through caution out of the window.

Actually it is standard practice in order to control a possible suspect, as someone else pointed out.