Are the Police fit for purpose
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Re: Are the Police fit for purpose
Wouldn't he, as an active policeman, be aware of that?
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According to the Telegraph
The police did not check his number plate, so it was a procedural failure and not collusion.indecent exposure after an incident at a drive-through McDonald’s in south London on the last weekend of February. Two female staff members are understood to have contacted the police, and a crime report was received by Scotland Yard on Feb 28.
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They'd have access to a lot more than that.
Nowadays, most people carry a mobile phone. The police can track the very exact locations and movements of anyone who carries a mobile phone, both in realtime and retrospectively. Their software can also map the network movements of any of those data tracks and highlight the intersections and subsequent movements.
I know nothing of the details of this case, and I recognise that anyone and everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence, but from what tiny scraps of 'news' I've been unable to ignore, I suspect that such technology may have played a part in the apprehension of the current suspect.
Quite why such a person, who was already on the record as being being a bit odd and unlikely to pass scrutiny for possession of police firearms, was allowed to continue in his 'office' as such a police officer, is very highly questionable.
I guess that's why the Gold Commander of the murder of the Brazilian electrician who was assassinated by the kill squad on her orders because he looked ever so slightly Middle Eastern or perhaps Pakistani, was so quick to step up to the plate and do the placating thing.
Denmark is not rotten, but there is something rotten in the state of the Met(ropolitan Police).
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Thinks..... let me see - I wonder if Plum is talking about the woman that got promoted afterwards...................
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She got promoted from Gold to Super-Gold as a result of her having slaughtered a swarthy-looking guy and having explained why London is in some way safer 'cos the Met Police can do so with impunity.
That's how political alchemists naturally convert Gold into silver-braid, using hot Lead(Pb).
That's how political alchemists naturally convert Gold into silver-braid, using hot Lead(Pb).
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That information was presented as prosecution evidence when I was on jury service and contributed to a 'guilty' verdict. The defendant had claimed he was in other places when the crime was committed.Undried Plum wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:25 am......... The police can track the very exact locations and movements of anyone who carries a mobile phone, both in realtime and retrospectively. Their software can also map the network movements of any of those data tracks and highlight the intersections and subsequent movements............
Note: if you're going to do stuff and rely on your neighbour's CCTV to get give you an alibi, make sure the time stamp on the neighbour's CCTV exactly matches the time stamp on the mobile networks.
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My car is festooned with cameras which collectively have 360° vision and record everybloodything outside the vehicle all the time. It also records a couple of hundred parameters of everything from pedal movements to steering deflections to GPS data to acceleration changes in all six axes to a'athing else. If I ever do something a wee bit illegal, the cops would have me totally ****.
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Does your car come with golf tees that you can put your balls on when you drive?
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Talking of camera's I must ask, what was the make of camera you used to photograph that mammatus cloud the other night? I have just attempted to photograph a rainbow and the results, with my mobile phone camera, were sub-optimal even though the rainbow was very distinct with great contrast against the clouds? I appreciate that this question has nothing to do with the police, or at least not until I attempt to photograph my neighbour's wife, nude, in her bathroom...
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I'm told that the new version of the Model S has an inside camera, so I'll have to be very careful what I do with my balls.
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An Honor7C mobile.TGG wrote:Talking of camera's I must ask
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Many thanks for that. Seems that the camera is quite advanced...
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Re: Are the Police fit for purpose
More than I am
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TGG, do play with the settings a bit. I have acquired a decent camera (Nikon B200) back in October and I bothered to read the manual. Actually it was pretty enlightening because in the settings chapter there was a wealth of information for making pictures in various lighting conditions
To return on the subject: I am afraid the police is a tailored to the idiosyncrasies of the nation: you can see them operating or not operating and you can guess the country. And it seems they are into an 80/20 80% of them are excellent but the remaining 20% can't organize a piss up in a brewery.
To return on the subject: I am afraid the police is a tailored to the idiosyncrasies of the nation: you can see them operating or not operating and you can guess the country. And it seems they are into an 80/20 80% of them are excellent but the remaining 20% can't organize a piss up in a brewery.
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UP, I had a cheap Chinkie dash cam with a fisheye lens. Amazing bit of kit as it covered inside down to your waist. Keep your hands on the steering wheel an off the gear knob.
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So Boris has announced that to keep women safe, they are going to put plain clothes cops in bars and night clubs.
What could poshibly go wrong........?
What could poshibly go wrong........?
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Nothing - there is a MET policeman who lives in Kent who would be ideal.
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And keeps his truncheon concealed.
Seriously, my BiL, ex Avon and Somerset police says he would not sell him life insurance, depending on conviction of course.
Then the question must be asked, are there others?
How can he receive a fair trial from a jury that will inevitably followed the events?
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Last Night in Bristol illustrates well the quality of our police farce, give em a bunch of women shouting at them and in they go all roughy toughy, put a similar number of people with a few angry males in amongst them and they is ****.
Bullies and cowards, always going for the low hanging fruit and scared witless of tackling anything that might resist, I hope to hell that we don't go the way of the septics and arm the ****
Bullies and cowards, always going for the low hanging fruit and scared witless of tackling anything that might resist, I hope to hell that we don't go the way of the septics and arm the ****
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If they didn't tackle them why were so many injured then?