Police Interceptors

[Deermanagement]

Pathetic.....

Not the interceptors but what happens to those who are caught. Just watching an episode and an angry little man is caught in a stolen car with both class A and class B drugs along with an extendable baton.

He gets a £170 fine and wow.... the car is returned to the owner.

Pathetic power the police are allowed to use, backed up by pathetic courts and magistrates. Rather than locking people down they should be locking more up and if there's not enough room, massive fines and confiscations.

Some will say it will lead to more crime should they be fined more but taking away pocket money is surely no way to continue

 

[Woodsmoke]

I agree. Sadly though, I strongly suspect the lunatics are firmly in charge of the asylum now. I think we're actually part the point of actually being able to save most of society, to be honest. It seems those that aren't criminals, are mostly idiots, with very few exceptions these days. I know there are exceptions to that generalisation, but for the most part I think it holds true

 

[pezz69]

If you wish to get really rilled up, watch police code zero. As a emergency service worker, i cannot simply watch it.

 

[Pedro]

They say it's getting worse and that's definitely the case, but don't think for a moment that there's a good old past where people got good sentences and emergency workers didn't get assaulted. I remember in the '80s a couple of police officers in an ambulance, assisting the crew to take someone in who had been sectioned. One of the officers had a bloody nose where the patient had head-butted him. The ambulance crew member who was in the back with the police and patient said "well at least you get paid to be assaulted". He received some "constructive criticism". And incidentally, it was totally out of character to the vast majority of ambulance staff, who are very supportive. On a lighter note, I recall statistics that said in our force a police officer was getting assaulted every day. The witty reply being that we should give that poor officer a desk job.

A lot of the difference is that these incidents are now recorded on video and find their way onto these reality telly series. From experience, if you play videos of these attacks in court, the defendants get longer sentences. But of course defence solicitors know this and avoid that happening where they can. Certainly assaults on police officers don't attract higher sentences than, say, 20 years ago, possibly less in reality.

 

[alberta boy]

Thankfully , the courts here still come down pretty hard on the above mentioned crimes . As to assaulting a Police Officer , they'll get the maximum sentence to every charge they can make stick . If you're obnoxious enough to assault a Cop , you'll pay the price . It's surprising how civilized people can be when they're facing 10 years .

AB

 

[Stalker62]

I think I can lay my finger on two points where I, mentally at least, realised that we had gone to hell in a handcart.

Years ago at Crown Court, a Judge made comments during a trial that swearing at a Police Officer was. in and of itself, not an offence and that Police should accept that at part of "their job". I was not there. It was not any case of mine. I often wonder what would happen if a defendant/Barrister/Police Officer starting playing up, swearing and being threatening to that Judge in his court? It sent out a message that was heard by every chancer and nere do well in the country. Thanks M'lud.

The second point was when they started issuing stab-resistant jackets to Ambulance crews. I think I may have shed a tear that day.

 

[tozzybum]

Countrys fnucked ,the police arrest scrotes n scum and have to beg the cps to prosecute.
Slimeball lawyer,s do their damdest to get the obviously guilty off and geriatric magistrates give them minimum sentence.
No wonder police morale is lower than a politician.

 

[Fadcode]

I think it shows/showed what this country had become when the MP's expenses scandal happened, and very few of them were prosecuted the reason was they said they didnt fully understand the rules, and these are the people running the country.
Corruption is rife in this country, most of the worlds drug money ends up coming here. Most of the Major Banks have been fined for money laundering, but are still allowed to operate, crazy,Govt contracts given out to friends, by people in high places, there is no end to the corruption.
I remember a few years ago my local MP was doing his rounds just before the election, he stopped at my gate to chat, I asked him why he had claimed £280,000 in expenses that year, he walked away, I am glad to say he was not re-elected, but we actually ended up with a worse representative for the area, they are all a lot of wasters.

 

[Idlemusket]

£170 ?? that made me think! If I remember correctly there was a young lad fined a lot more than that back in the 70's for joy riding in a JCB (no drugs involved) weeks wages was only £35 then

 

[Fadcode]

I actually think these programmes that show the Police, Ambulances, and other Emergency Services doing their job, gives out a bad impression to the public, especially the Police, who through no fault of their own come across as non-effective, it seems to me that the Police's worst enemy is the Judiciary. these scrotes that they chase seem to get off far too lightly.