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Post by tiddles on Jan 28, 2012 16:05:59 GMT 1
Do you think our local police are doing their best or is there room for improvement?
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 29, 2012 9:25:45 GMT 1
Do you think our local police are doing their best or is there room for improvement? There's always room for improvement. |
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Post by tiddles on Jan 29, 2012 14:16:01 GMT 1
I agree, I think the rot set in when they went over to the call centre system. If you call them their aim seems to be to talk you out of sending for the police. If more than one major incident occurs, they can't cope and one of the incidents is dumped.
We always hear of getting more, 'bobbies on the beat' but for my part, I'd rather have my bobbies in a fast response vehicle rather than padding about West Blackhall Street on foot whilst I am being burgled or assaulted in Finnart Street.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 29, 2012 22:29:49 GMT 1
i think if they could do away with that damm call centre and have calls going into greenock as it used to be we might have a better service.....both jocky and i have seen a 999 call take just about an hour before attendance....
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Post by tiddles on Jan 29, 2012 23:10:32 GMT 1
we used to have a direct number but they took it away and now we have to use the call-centre crap.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 30, 2012 2:28:37 GMT 1
and half of the time the call centre sends them to the wrong places
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 30, 2012 2:30:06 GMT 1
Some officers are good others a waste of space, room for improvement certainly is, more officers on the beat and less using cars.
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Post by myfindhorn on Jan 30, 2012 13:31:17 GMT 1
Is Greenock still the dumping ground for police who got out of line, I remember lots of things happening here in Greenock and it was said that Greenock was the equivalent of borstal training for the police.
I have to admit to meeting a few lately that would make you boak, arrogant towrags who think they are gods.
Still thing hav'nt changed they still stand aside when there is a fight and pick up the one on the ground , or they pick up the young ones who are doing nothing to get their week=end quota in.................sad
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Post by tiddles on Jan 30, 2012 13:41:49 GMT 1
I agree about the arrogance and I once made a formal complaint when one of them called me, "boy". They need proper direction and strong reminders that they, 'police' by the will and consent of the people and not their sergeant.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 30, 2012 22:30:35 GMT 1
and here was me thinking you would be pleased to be called a boy....
off topic only for a moment while i remember
i remember my mum in the IRH and there was a doctor that came to see her.....oh my god....she asked him if he was a YT...youth trainee.....he was so young looking lol
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 30, 2012 23:10:50 GMT 1
and here was me thinking you would be pleased to be called a boy.... off topic only for a moment while i remember i remember my mum in the IRH and there was a doctor that came to see her.....oh my god....she asked him if he was a YT...youth trainee.....he was so young looking lol Ma lad is really young looking, he's a pharmacist, one of his ties looks like the st Columbus one, whilst at work in Glasgow a customer asked him if this was his after school job, he hasn't worn that tie since |
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 30, 2012 23:15:47 GMT 1
i remember when i was well out of school i went to the hector mcneils baths and was swimming away quite the thing and there was a school clasee in at the top end...
the teacher when finished ordered them out and then started shouting again to COME OUT!!! all of a sudden she came over to were i was and shreaked "did i not hear her"....i was dumbfounded as she was talking to me.....lol.....i came out and spoke to her, she was my old PE teacher lol
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Post by winston on Jan 31, 2012 0:13:53 GMT 1
The Police Officer I just watched on the telly was a complete shocker and if I was his senior officer i'd have him in the office in the morning for a swift boot to his balls.
It was one of these reality cop shows which splits between the actual incident and post-incident interviews with the copper. His attitude in the interview section stunk, he was sitting there, in uniform, stating that there was no need for a Human Rights Act "it's naw China, we don't need any of this" and banging on about how society was about to implode on itself "thanks to all the shites" and that he was there to "administer justice."
Last time I checked, the role of the Police was to enforce the law and it is the Sheriff who administers justice following a fair trial.
As for human rights, there's been a fair few fit-ups in the past and ill-treatment of arrested people (who at point of arrest aren't yet guilty).
So, I hope that tomorrow morning Justine Curran, the Chief Constable of Tayside Police sends this arsehole back to Police Academy to learn about the basics of Policing.
Rant over.
For now.
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 31, 2012 0:29:39 GMT 1
winston rant all you like that is what this is for..
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