Police Use London Bus For Disguise
London has been having trouble with Eastern European con artists, so they used the obvious solution of how do you get lots of boys in blue to the area, without the con-artists knowing. You use a big red London bus and cram it full of police. The story is here in the Evening Standard. More than 25 were detained and a dozen or so were charged.
Surely though, the choice of a Number 2 bus was wrong. Perhaps it should have been a 49 or 99, or perhaps one that went past a convenient prison like Wandsworth, Pentonville or Wormwood Scrubs. That would give a whole new meaning to the phrase “Go Directly To Jail”
Funny Program of the Night
Watching a program called Traffic Cops. The Police nicked this guy, who had eaten a crushed up dog biscuit thinking it was drugs, for which he’d been arrested. The officer said they were barking up the wrong tree.
A Coloured Horse in the Royal Procession
The Royal Procession at Royal Ascot is always accompanied by police outriders. Some might be passing derogatory comments as one of these horses appeared to be coloured and some but only a few these days, look down on a skewbald or a piebald horse. But police forces in the UK, have had the odd coloured horse for some years now.
Surprise! Surprise!
The Police don’t like an external regulator. Judging by the Blobbies I see in some of my travels, I can see why!
When did the Police ever accept that someone outside their ranks could be right in anything?
Strangely, the Chief Inspector of Prisons is often an outsider.
The Mounties on Guard
Yesterday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police provided the mounted guard on Whitehall.
I doubt, I’ll ever see this again in my lifetime. There is a photo gallery here from the Toronto Star.
I wonder how many of the tourists snapping away didn’t realise that it was Canadians on guard. Surely MP on the saddle-cloth was a giveaway, something was different.
Surorisingly, the event doesn’t seem to have been reported in the television news. I found out from yesterday’s copy of The Times.
The Unusual Things You See in Hospital
I’d never realised until I saw it that all London buses have large identfication letters on their roofs, but looking down from my room I could easily see them.
I suppose they are for identification purposes from Police helicopters or the Air Ambulance.
This Backlash Just Had to Happen
Last night in Rochdale, various factions attacked the takeaway and the police, that used to be owned by some of those on trial for sex offences in Liverpool Crown court.
And people wonder why Rochdale has such an awful run-down town centre.
With all the goings on there, would you let any of your children go near the place? And would you go there yourself, if there were a decent alternative nearby? Of course, you wouldn’t!
It strikes me before you try to build up the town centre, you must give it a steam clean first, to remove all the low life of whatever race they are to a place, where they can’t do any more damage.
Huhne Has Been Stupid
When it was first rumoured that Chris Huhne had got his wife to take some of his speeding points, I put up a post.
I said this.
It sounds to me that this case might end up with a more serious charge.
Whatever happened to the beloved criminal quote of “It’s a fair cop, officer!”
It now seems I was right too, as Chris Huhne has resigned with all sorts of consequences according to this report on the BBC.
If he’d taken his punishment at the time, he would now still be a member of the government.
The fact that he didn’t shows how naive he must be. After all, he must have realised that once the story got out he’d be finished, so why not cap the story at the time by losing his licence.
When Was The Last Time the Met Police Commissioner Patrolled on a Horse?
At Tuesday night’s football at White Hart Lane, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe was part of the mounted force policing the match. It’s here in the Metro.
It’s not the first time though that Hogan-Howe has been at a high-profile event on a horse in uniform. This is an extract from a report in the Guardian.
One of Bernard Hogan-Howe’s greatest pleasures as chief constable of Merseyside police was riding through the crowds on horseback at the Grand National. It gave him the chance to pursue his passion for horse-riding while also soaking up the very particular atmosphere of Aintree.
I’ve always felt that horses are an interesting part of a Police Force’s tools. If of course they are used properly.
But I do wonder who was the previous high-ranking Police Officer who patrolled on horse in London?
Why Don’t The Police Have Fake Tasers?
There’s a whole list of safety issues concering tasers and they are documented here.
Would it not be sensible to create a fake one, that to the untrained eye looked like real one? These could be issued to officers and would be used in a first instance, as one of the Met’s experts has just said, that when most people see a taser, they calm down and give up.
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