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Originally Posted by Derek S
He'll spend time in prison which, for a Police officer, is an exceptionally difficult place to be. He'll lose his job, probably a big chunk of his pension and his license. He'll have to pass an extended test once his disqualification expires.
His life has been ruined for doing the job he chose to do. He wasn't some yahoo screaming around at speed in a motor for a laugh. He was a highly trained driver reacting to what he believed was an ongoing crime and because of choices he made he will have to live with the death of an innocent girl for evermore.
But hey you've got your pound of flesh and seem happy about it. Another boot into the Police from the usual suspects who always are quick to moan and complain. 
I just hope you never need the Police to drive quickly to help you.
Is that in their cars or the unmarked black helicopters?  |
Derek I have no problems at all with Police doing their correctly but this officer did not do his job properly by any stretch of the imagination and in doing so Hayley the real victim in this tragedy lost her life and that could well have been avoided by the split second decision of him deciding not to switch on his Blues and Two's on a residential road on a housing estate, you can see the actual road on the TV news, and 94mph on that type of road without any warning and at night is an accident waiting to happen.
His life was ruined because he failed to do his job right and a life was lost for that very reason, at least he is still alive.
I never knock the Police as they do a fantastic job and I am not one of the usual suspects who try to denigrate the Police at any oppurtunity, I just felt that in this case the officer had well overstepped the mark.