20-03-2021, 05:37 PM
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Re: What is going wrong with some police lately?
Originally Posted by Baz46
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"A probationary police officer who assaulted a woman in a "terrifying" attack has been given a curfew, prompting criticism he was not jailed.""West Midlands Police PC Oliver Banfield grabbed and manhandled Emma Homer last July while drunk. He has been suspended and faces disciplinary action."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-56459217
20-03-2021, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Xandra
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Was that the one near Hurn Susan m? If so it needed to be increased I don't think they have got worse lately just that with the Internet and people able to video incidents on their phones we just get to hear about more.
Previously it was much easier to keep things hidden.
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Just read in paper it was West Parley The Horns Inn and his sentence is now 13 yrs
20-03-2021, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Tedc
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Apparently, it's not unusual to conceal drugs, etc., in strange places.Finding those drugs might lead to complaints, from the suspect?
A useful defence?
20-03-2021, 08:13 PM
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"A police officer who pretended his brother had terminal cancer so he could get time off work has been found guilty of gross misconduct.""When former PC Callum McIntyre transferred to a new unit in the Metropolitan Police in March 2019 he told his sergeant that his brother had terminal cancer.
Over the course of the next three months, McIntyre was granted 30 days' compassionate leave in order to support his brother."
https://news.sky.com/story/police-of...-work-12247364
We are told the police can only do their job with the cooperation of the public. This is how it's always been. However, with what we are seeing reported on these 'bad apples' in the 'police barrel' this I believe is fast-becoming a questionable expectation IMO.
21-03-2021, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Sage
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Police are just regular folks like the rest of us. They will exhibit the same kinds of dysfunctions.
Not sure about the US, I know nothing about your country, but there will probably be similar training which could possibly result in similar behaviours.
21-03-2021, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by susan m
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18 months ago in this area a local policeman killed his lover, she sent a message to his wife saying they were having an affair and there was a fight apparently he strangled her, he was well liked by friends and had two children, so tragic, he lost it as did she emotions took over and moments of madness and ended both lives and their families destroyed. He got 7 years but last night on the local news it said 3 more years have been added.Awful awful one would think as a serving officer common sense would have kicked in but I guess humans do bad things and lose absolute control.
https://www.over50sforum.com/showthread.php?t=73896
That aside though, his occupation could have made dealing with what happened with him far worse. As you say you would expect common sense to have been used, it possibly would have been for anyone else but he was perhaps used to people obeying him.
Most of us will never have undergone typical police training so would probably react differently. Police are trained to enforce in certain situations, if someone does not do as ordered then they are made to do so. That is obviously no excuse though, in the eyes of the law he should be treated exactly the same for his crime, as any of us would be.
If he does have some psychological 'flaw' though, however slight, then emotions which are controlled by chemicals in the the brain, added to police training, could well have been totally out of control with the results as happened.
Whatever the occupation and that is all it is, a job of work, for me that would not necessarily be any guarantee of the type of personality. As much as we probably all would like to believe that ‘police are there to help’ to be fact, with some police that is obviously not always the case.
I feel so sorry for his children, how on earth are they ever going to deal with the emotional turmoil all this may possibly leave them with?
21-03-2021, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Cinderella
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Might be the effects of hurried recruitment and selection. Retaining officers because of stress related conditions, with insufficient support to deal with problems before they manifest as serious complication, or worse.
21-03-2021, 12:23 PM
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Re: What is going wrong with some police lately?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ion-in-britainDated 2015
Who police the police?
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