Thread: This one's going down
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Old 24-12-2009, 12:24   #425
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Re: This one's going down
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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
well in the ideal world that would happen but out here in the real world the police have to take risks both with there own lives and the publics because the criminals don't care about either and thanks to the massive ammount of training our police get loss of life and injury are kept to a absolute minimum
I'ts very easy for us to sit back and pull apart a certain incident and making judgements with the benefit of hindsight but out there in the real world it's totally different
What utter tosh. Are you seriously suggesting that police officers have carte blanche to put the public at risk, that they have some sort of "get out of jail free" card? The "risks" you speak of are totally unacceptable, in any walk of life. The police are not there to put the public's lives in danger, irrespective of the goal. This was not some master criminal he was chasing, it was someone whose car had been flagged by his ANPR, ( I do not know why, perhaps someone could enlighten me) and he decided that his speed was more important than the protection of the public, his highest priority. It seems that the judge and jury agreed, that is why he is in prison.

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Originally Posted by Derek S View Post
So if you were a cop in a Police car and a car sailed through a set of red lights in front of you would you follow him?
If he then started to drive erratically would you keep on following him?

And on a side note what do you think happens with stolen cars? Do you think they get parked up on a side road for a bit or do they get used in committing more serious crimes.

If you don't want the Police to drive fast anywhere then please tell them, write to your MP demanding the Volvos, BMWs and Evos get replaced with smart cars, preferably with mattresses strapped to the front just in case. Either that or pay people to walk about in front of them with a red flag.
So let me ask you, is driving at speeds, close to one hundred miles per hour, in a residential area, at night, an acceptable risk to take? Bear in mind the result of this driver's actions.

Are you suggesting that I do not have the right to have an opinion, because I am not a police officer?

Has anything that I have written here contradicted the ACPO guidelines on pursuits? What are the guidelines police officers have to follow when driving at speeds in excess of the prescribed limits?
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