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The issue with “Plod”
That jargon term is not the most respectful, better is “Bobbies” … and yet today, it’s more and more applicable. I think of our resident Dixon of Dock Green here, Penseivat, and welcome his counterpoint … there are some not so pleasant things in the sshots below.
My own tuppence worth is two incidents, both in Russia …
I was driving with my mate beside me, former tax inspector, we were at the lights, turning right, “road plod” were ahead, the green arrow was on, they never moved, maybe unaware … I honked them .. my mate sank down in the seat, mouthing jargon at me … the police did go right, clearly taking the honk as a signal that the lights had changed.
For fifteen minutes, I now received the lecture on how police were now so openly tools of the state, having to fill a quota of fines each month … one thing they were not was to be there for you. My mate was amazed I’d got away with it … Russians steer well clear of that sort of trouble as a rule.
The second was in Moscow, I’d got off the train, had to put 24 hours in, needed a place, approached a young plodster if he knew of anywhere. He just stared at me, realising of course that I was foreign. An Asian came up, said he knew of a place. Once there, I phoned my friends in south Moscow, they came by train.
First question was … however had I found this place, miles from the centre? I said I’d had to go with my reading of the man, plus the policeman had heard all too. I reasoned that he might have intervened. Weeks later, back in our town again, my mate was stunned again, then shrugged.
Anyway, here are those sshots …
The state and all of its employees have a monopoly on the use of overwhelming violence that is directed as the hierarchy of state deems fit. The people threatened by this are claimed to be consenting to it.
None so blind as those who will not see.
In her keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference Kemi Badenoch gave her two penn’orth on English ethnicity. No surprises – doesn’t mention the Scots, Welsh or Irish; goes straight for white English identity, like they always do. Anyone can be English according to her, a so-called ethnic minority, like her, can be an ethnic majority at the same time? If anyone can be English then it no longer qualifies as an ethnicity.
Ethnicity: refers to a large group of people who have the same national, racial and cultural origins. This would include language, history and traditions.
On the 7th October 2026 the Tory Party officially cancelled English ethnicity.
‘I’m afraid any counterpoint of mine may not calm others as much as hoped. I have been retired from my county force (now a service) for over 20 years and it often seems like a different profession to the one I spent half of my working life in. I still believe that majority of coppers are doing what they are supposed to be doing, protecting life, preventing crime, arresting offenders and, through the CPS, prosecuting them, and preventing breaches of the Police. However, times, and society has changed. A Police officer’s allegiance is to the Crown, not a political party, but recent events have, in my opinion, brought political influences into the way Police officers carry out their role. For whatever reasons, one group of protesters can parade through the streets without arrest, while another group face arrest and prosecution. Why is this? Operational order are given out by very senior officers, but those operational orders are, allegedly, drafted and written by the Home Office, or other politically motivated departments. This may be why those demanding the destruction of Israel, and displaying terrorist flags can do so, while others, protesting about what they see as an invasion of this country which may put their families at risk are not allowed to do so. I am not saying that one group is bad and one group is good, but there have been rumours of the second groups having people deliberately placed in them to stir up or invite trouble (slightly off topic, a recent report from the USA suggests that FBI members were in the 6th of July crowd in Washington, encouraging protesters to break into the buildings. If agitators, acting on political instructions, can do that in America, then there is no reason why it can’t, and doesn’t, happen here). If that is happening, it often gives the opinion, rightly or wrongly, that the Police in general are politically motivated.
There have been reports of individual incidents where the Police, apparently get it wrong, and I would suggest it’s down to training and instructions from senior ranks. One recent newspaper article was about a woman being harassed by two men of a particular hue, and she was so concerned, she phoned 999, and was Apparently advised that her use of the words, “filthy migrants” could cause offence. If this really did happen, then I would suggest the attending Police officer should be given more training.
While on the subject, may I comment on YouTube videos where so called auditors video Police officers reacting to an incident they have staged, such as deliberately walking around and fiddling the outside of Police stations, looking into parked Police vehicles, or recording Police officers in their private cars. This usually leads to people in uniform coming to ask why these numpties are doing this (and In the current security situation, perhaps these requests are reasonable)? There are two views I have on this. Either these people are out to deliberately get a reaction from Police in order to show them in a bad light, claiming they know their rights (but not apparently, their responsibilities), or the uniformed people are actors so that the video YouTube blogger can obtain more views, and more money.
There will no doubt that many may disagree with me, and I’m ok with this. That is what free speech and debate is all about.
Finally, when the media is full of reports that the nasty Police arrested a man purely because he shouted, “I love bacon” outside a mosque (was that the only offence he committed?), the grandson of an ex colleague, himself a Police officer, stopped a stolen car and discovered a kidnapped child in the back. Not a peep in the media. Possibly because he was ‘a nasty Policeman’.
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JH: Ta, Penseivat.
“photographing, not fiddling”. Writing this on my Kindle and was not able to check autocorrect or reductive text. I also apologise for any other grammatical errors there may be.
‘predictive text’. Aagh!
Predictive text is the pits. I once worked for a local authority and had to write to someone to tell him that his pay rise would be actioned the following week. Predictive text changed the word ‘actioned’ to ‘auctioned’ and my colleague was a little worried…..
He should not have been worried knowing local authority’s penchant for going with the highest bid.😉
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