Police Scared of the Dark?

By MykeSaint | Friday, January 28, 2011, 11:37

From the Wisbech Standard:

Police chief stuns councillors by declaring Waterlees play park is a ‘no-go’ area after 8pm because of health and safety fears

A POLICE chief stunned town councillors after telling them he had used health and safety fears to stop his officers entering the £1million Waterlees play park after 8pm.

Says it all doesn't it? Police now refuse to go out in the dark, as they might be hurt.

Stay at home under the duvet, I say. It's scary out there.

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There is still a PCSO that uses a bicycle seem him around town a lot.,few years ago the chief inspector at wisbech police station used to go out on media friendly night time patrols on a bike ,think he caught some fuel thieves ?, going off the subject Kings lynn have a paramedic on the bicycle.which is a great idea something i would like too see adopted in Wisbech...

By 8ubble8oy at 16:54 on 01/02/11
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Police backpedalling? I like that! Lol. not seen a Copper on a bike for years. In fact not seen a copper for many weeks, apart from passing me on the A1 last night, they were breaking the speed limit with no 'Blue Lights'.
anyway back to the story. It would not surprise me to find the Police were (how shall I put it?) 'Mistaken'. just like the Police person who told me he'd issued a Civil Penalty Notice to someone, only for me to find out he had not! I wrote to the Chief Constable (the last one, not present one) I see she retired, how they know is beyond me, as she never replied to my letter.

By MykeSaint at 07:50 on 01/02/11
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Well apparently ther police ARE'NT scard of the dark after all....seems like there's some serious backpedalling going on here as Inspector Sullivan says his comments were "taken out of context" . Hmmmm. Read the full statement at http://tinyurl.com/4nk8rn7

By traci_edwards at 09:13 on 29/01/11
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Simple fact is most people who don't bother with tax and insurance on a car will be criminally minded individuals,so when the police set up the road side checks every person they check goes through the little mobile roadside computer its got more to do with that then having threadbare tyres ..shoplifters mainly drug addicts stealing to feed their habit ,they will tell you its a victimless crime,we have caught five shoplifters in my workplace in the last 3 months one was a young teenage lad bullied into it ,the other four Eastern Europeans men ,the last one we caught had a 3"inch bladed hunting lock knife on him...

By 8ubble8oy at 16:38 on 28/01/11
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So why do the Police bother with motorists? Shop lifters? Surely they should concentrate on the 'crime ridden' area? If you know it's crime ridden, and they don't are they doing their job?

Mind you my experience of the Police is that they don't do much anyway.

By MykeSaint at 15:21 on 28/01/11
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