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Derbyshire is in safe hands....

Manchester Bobby.
 

I'm a Derbyshire Cop and I can tell you now that they are all Specials in that van and are now all in deep water excuse the pun.

But by jove is it funny.
 

They have obviously never been told to 'drive to arrive'.
 

Anyone caught pushing such large vehicles in an urban area with disposable cameras in their pockets ought to be locked away for ever, without charges!
 

Those clowns need to be stuck on the book for wilful neglect of police property.

If they keep lowering the entry standards for new recruits, it's only going to get worse.

Worse thing is, they probably could have made it if they went through slowly.

Muppets
 

I would just like to say i posted this on friday.

-Charlie
 

Hi Folks,

If the driver of that Derbyshire van was a Special then why were they driving with lights and sirens? What a jockey.

I have nothing witty to say about the Tesco Taser. Our ARV's have Sainsbury's Stunguns and they're much better quality. Some forces used to use Kwik Save Chargers and Waitrose Whizzers but they were not cost effective. They took all Officers of ARV along with their uniforms and, despite them not having attended a CID Course they now call themselves "Decectives" or "Investigators" and sit at desks all day and have two monitors on their computers.

They're now important.

Regards,

PC MCI
 

Well, Mr. Copperfield, apropos weapons, here's some discussion at the Grauniad. Regarding weapons for home defense.
 

:) Love the video! It reminds me of this one, and demonstrates how selfless our brave officers can be, especially to a chorus of childrens' sobs! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RPeNyw1VtIA
 

Dave - try complaining when the next "Hi folks" e-mail arrives.

It is "unprofessional" to address the workers in this sort of matey language.

In view of the way the Police Service is going, micro-management, targets, performance monitoring, graphs and charts, meeting upon meetings, meetings to plan meetings, exponentially increasing bureaucracy , whippings for not building enough tractors ( is this last bit right? -Ed )...

The emails should be address ..

"Dear Komrade"
 

"The emails should be address ..

"Dear Komrade" "


I agree - the way the police is going, I fully expect that every police station will soon have a Political Kommissar to ensure complete indoctrination of officers with NuLabour political philosophy...
 

Thank you, Derbyshire:) Really made my day. The camerman's commentary was excellent, he didn't say to55ers once:)
 

Brilliant video - The locals seemed pleased.

What a service.
 

Did I hear someone on that video say..."The police have got brains!"....Little do they know how clever some of them really are. Like Mr Copperfield. ferinstance.... :)
 

What a bunch of Numpty's. Makes me proud to be a PC that one does.
 

Just to make the point again, THEY WERE SPECIAL CONSTABLES, not regulars.
 

As another Derbyshire cop, there's no way I can excuse such idiocy - but please, please, don't lump us all in with whichever Johnny no-stars was driving!
 

Not sure how it is in Derbyshire, but I've never seen more than two specials on at any one time in my area. Never mind a whole submarine/van full of them.
 

I live in Tucson, Arizona in the U.S.
It is a desert but we do get flooding during our rainy season, which is this time of year. When people get thier cars stuck in an obviously flooded area they are charged with the "Stupid Motorist" act. Not sure what they would charge the police with though...
Love the video.
 

>Just to make the point again, THEY WERE SPECIAL CONSTABLES, not regulars.

Just to make the point again: MoPs can't tell the difference, and nor should we have to.
 

Ah, reminds me of the time I left a charged camera flash circuit lying around, and asked someone to pass it to me.

There's nothing like a wee shock to remind people to be careful around electricity. Or should that be careful around me?
 

I guess the poor guys in Derbyshire will be feeling might relieved if East Midlands Airport follows the example of Durham Tees Valley to employ geeks and plane spotters to combat the 4WD terrorists!
 

Seeing Derbyshire's finest in that clip reminded me of the time we sent a number of PSUs up to Scotland for the G8 a few years ago. Force wide I think we contributed 12 PSUs in total and a similar number of transits. However, after the G8 all the Officers came home safe and sound but alas one transit did not and was eventually recovered by Strathclyde! It left us all scratching our heads as to how our Officers had managed to make it back given that they left a transit behind. Suffice to say Strathclyde took great amusement in passing the recovery costs on...
 

LOL! Brilliant video!!
 

Specials or regulars....
(1) At least they were out of the station and in uniform - unlike 3/4s of our strength
(2) At least they were (with blueys on) - trying to go to a job!
(3) At least they tried to navigate the hazard. I would have gone into the water as well!!!
(4) I hope they didn't get in the sh*t for going to a job and coming a cropper. ( come on - be honest - it could have happened to any of us who still get out there in the big bad world).

I have no doubt the nine o'clock shudda brigade have tried to leg them.
You know at 9am they come into their office and go "He shudda done this, she shudda done that".

Good on you for getting out of the nick and trying !!!!!!!!!!!!

Ricky G
 

"Just to make the point again, THEY WERE SPECIAL CONSTABLES, not regulars."

So what? Are you trying to say that regulars would never have screwed up? Get over yourself. In fourteen years service as a special I've seen all types of police personnel screw up at one time or another.

It was a funny video though.
 

Actually a special driving & a PCSO crew trying to get from Clay Cross section into Chesterfield to staff points where the roads were closed.

The driver a female special intitially claimed that she was not using blues & two's. This is now with CAPS & they are in deep do do.

Oh yes & she has no licence to drive this type of vehicle!!!

So is the Chief going to wear a permit to drive or is he going for a TWOC offence?

As my old tutor said.

Live & learn.

As for the comment above re regulars cocking up, yes they do, but specials seem to dop it in spectacular style don't they.
 

What is ""CAPS"???
 

"As for the comment above re regulars cocking up, yes they do, but specials seem to dop it in spectacular style don't they."

*sigh* Leaving firearms on top of vehicles and driving off, negligent discharge of firearm and then suing the job, Sgt allowing homeowner to hoover up a room where someone has just been stabbed and taken to hospital etc etc. Yup, those specials really do screw up in spectacular style. You can come down from your pedestal now.
 

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CAPS - Complaints & Professional Standards.......

As for coming down of my pedestal, well where specials are concerned, I'm fine where I am thanks....
 

Hi Folks is the way some Pc's address Magistrates!
 

To be fair, driving through a flood does take an amount of skill and knowledge, but I thought it was common sense not to go hurtling through a flood trying to attempt a "Barnes Wallis" as the water splashes up inside the engine compartment, hits your electrics and cuts out your engine. Also, you must keep the revs up a certain degree no matter how slow you're driving to force the water out of the exhaust (unless you have a snorkel fitted, which I assume Police vans don't) and stop the engine suffocating.

I mean, I only know that much as I've got friends who've done 4 x 4 offroading, and my dad was an advanced Police driver licensed for pursuits.

I can't remember if driving through a flood was mentioned to me when I was taking my car driving lessons (I imagine it was but maybe I don't recall as I was already aware having ridden motorbikes for several years), but I maybe wrongly assumed that anyone authorised to drive a Police vehicle had to pass some kind of driving test? Could Officers out there clarify that for me?

I know that I missed out on certain "grandad rights" when I passed my test (like 7 and a half tonners, minibuses and trailers). Is that what Anon at 8:48am meant by the driver not being licenced?

I have to admit, I was torn between several emotions watching that footage: "You berk! That's not how you drive through a flood!", to, "Poor things. Of all the places to screw up....", to, "Well at least the witnesses weren't COMPLETELY abusive about their cock up!".

If that was the day Sheffield got hammered by flash floods, and it was a case of everyone charging about doing what they could to prevent loss of life, then I can understand there being urgency in their response.....but what a way to embarrass yourselves.....
 

Not clever to post the 'how to make a taser' instrutions. How many more idiots are going to try this now? I know this was already available on the net but the huge readership of this blog will make this available to many more. A bit irresponsible if you ask me.
 

anon 6.02am... are you serious? it's a JOKE! unless you consider the sort of shock you get from a couple of camera batteries a big deal... :-)

God give me strength.
 

Just reads your piece in today's Daily Telegraph Dave. We are going up in the world!

(Well done)
 

Excellent article in The Telegraph today, I enjoyed reading it and blogging about it.
Keep up the good work!
 

Woodentop - I suppose you think a regular tazer has a couple of 25,000 volt batteries in it.

Or did you miss class the day they did electricity?

(By the by DC, nice piece in the Torygraph - bet it stirs things up - now all forces will be furiously looking for who attended a domestic involving a wire terrier lately)
 

Yep, good article in the Telegraph, DC.

Re the cash for peerages affair, it is disappointing to see that the CPS was unable to recommend a prosecution.

But, apparently, a House of Commons select committee will ask for all the evidence to be put in the public domain - let's hope that happens, and then we can all make up our minds.

Interesting to see today Lord Putnam again calling into question the motives of the police.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the CPS' decision, it is interesting again to see senior Labour figures who apparently believe that they should be above the law. This in contrast to the oppressive and authoritarian laws that this govt has introduced for the rest of us (the mere hoi-polloi).

There is a very good full page comment in the Times today with regard to Blair's legacy in this regard entitled,

"Are we a free country any more?
History will remember this Government for its assault on liberty":

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2106422.ece
 

Don't you also have one of those special tools? A pen that turns minor spats between chavs into detections? If you find one that can do it without all the bollox in between send me one.
 

woodentop... I don't think it's a joke, it'll hurt like hell...If nothing else it'll screw with your comms. You may want to be the volunteer from the audience to prove otherwise if you wish. I think it gives the heads-up to front line troops.
 

hilarious! but really how do you drive through a flood? :o
 

re the taser, i built one from the site Dave links to a month or two back for the purposes of stag night japes.
you notice it when you've had one pint, you sort of notice it after two and after that it ceases to work at all. unless i'm impervious to electric shocks!
 

Does Derbyshire have Inca fitted to their vehicles ? and does it work under water ?

Inca - Hantspol Officer's are going to get stuck on if they found to be speeding going to a urgent job !!! even if its a colleague getting a good shoeing !!!

Big Brother is watching !!!
 

All I want to know about the cash for gongs is which fine fellow or fellowess in the CPS dropped the prosecution, and how long before they become Sir Fellow or Dame Fellowess.

Hang on: wasn't "Hi Folks" pretty much how Hitler used to begin his speeches?
 

"All I want to know about the cash for gongs is which fine fellow or fellowess in the CPS dropped the prosecution, and how long before they become Sir Fellow or Dame Fellowess."

Yep, good point!

I notice that the papers today are saying that MPs' initial relief that nobody was charged is '...now turning to anger.'

Apparently, Yates is going to be hauled over the coals.

Amazing - MPs put on a pretence that they do not want any special privileges, and yet any normal member of the public suspected of a serious criminal offence is liable to be investigated in-depth, with the investigation taking as long as necessary.

But MPs apparently would like to have a special privilege such that if they are suspected of a serious offence then there is either no investigation or perhaps just a cursory/slip-shod one.

Which just further illustrates (if further illustration was necessary) what a total load of scumbags they really are.

Good job Yates - shame about the CPS!
 

bless derbyshire - or can i top that with the northumbria chief constable mike craik - media star- shagging ( allegedly) jim peacock's ( ex chief super) wife - ex Acc caroline Peacock

whcih lead to jim tipping up at mikes house..a roll about occurred ( allegedy) the chief got a black eye ( allegeldy) .the panic alarm was struck the armed unit appeared and lo the angel gabrial deleted the incident log ..so much for force policy on domestic violence!!!

one rule for one..one rule for the rest of us....hurah for ACPO ..Not
 

http://ww1.northumbria.police.uk/ePolicing/Web/WMS.nsf/PeopleContentDocs/PEO003811?OpenDocument

For a picture of Carolyn Peacock.

Mmmm would I???
 

Reading saturday's Daily Mail- Peter Oborne's article about John Yates...I have to agree with him. Particularly that it is John Yates who is owed the apology from the government. Yates of the Yard IS THE REAL HERO in the case, for having guts and integrity to stand up to these sleazy low life hypocritical politicians. I know exactly how John Yates feels about the slurs he has suffered in the course of providing a service to this country, it's people and the public "greater good".

If some of the hypocrites in government were HALF the man John Yates is, this country would NOT be in the mess it is now in. SHAME ON THEM. Good on you John Yates, and I for one hope that "the fat lady" aint sung yet!

Officer Kickbutt
 

Yes, interesting to see that both Brown and Blair put out statements to the effect that they are relieved but understand that the police had to investigate.

But, of course, 'coincidentally', every other NuLabour t*rd (Lord Putnam, Peter Mandelson, etc) is busy telling everyone who will listen (sadly, the media) what an outrage the police investigation has been.

Did someone say that there was going to be no more spin?


The CPS concluded that there was 'insufficient evidence' to obtain a conviction, but there was an interesting account in the Times on Saturday of the communication between Yates/his team and the CPS right until the moment of decision. The article implies that the CPS just completely lost their nerve - what spineless t*rds they are.

What I personally found utterly outrageous was the concerted campaign by NuLabour politicians to put pressure on the police during the investigation, and that campaign continues unabated.

Some truly are more equal than other, it seems.
 

"Some truly are more equal than others, it seems." Yes, it seems that they are, and ALWAYS have been. Unfair and unacceptable. The real villain has not been outed, so far, it seems.
 

can anyone give me a link to the article by Daver in the Telegraph? I can't find it online