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Originally Posted by danielf
The fact that the fine was handed out by PC 'shiny buttons' Stuart Gray who earlier fined a man £50 for dropping a £10 note doesn't help credibility either.
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Again utter guff. For one thing Police where he work can't hand out fixed penalties for littering. Again this was one story where someone went to the papers and their story was taken at face value.
The real story there was guy dropped a tenner and other papers, he was handed the money back and blatantly dropped the paperwork as the cop was walking away.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I have no doubt that a different version of events is doing the rounds on the police grapevine, but let's face it, if the pair of officers attending have got their fingers burnt by bad publicity because they jumped in with their size 10s rather than simply declining to get involved in a pointless fracas between a shopper and a moronic security guard
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They haven't got burned as their identities aren't widely known. Yet.
If someone is causing a minor disturbance in a busy shopping centre and the Police are contacted by the security guards they can't very well ignore the request.
If they then intervene, tell the person exactly why they are there and he ignores them they might have to be a bit more forceful in their manner.
He wasn't arrested or detained, he was given words of advice. The cops at Braehead aren't rookies straight out of college, they know what they are doing and I believe them when I'm told their version of events.
The other thing that makes me think this guy is being a bit light on the truth is some of the stuff he mentions is based on English law and not Scots law, he might have just done some Internet based research before writing his letter but I'm still dubious.
Anyway what'll probably happen is the original complainer will get a few more media interviews, will get a big basket of goodies from Braehead and the Police will tell him they're sorry he felt the Police intimidated him and the officers have been spoken to.