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Originally Posted by Derek
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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Erm ok. I'm quite happy to accept that that story wasn't all it was made out to be (I actually tried looking for a reputable source for that one, I thought the Times wouldn't stoop so low). However, the fact remains that for the example you quoted, we only have a claim by the police that there was more to it than that. Apparently, the PF did not have much confidence in that claim as the case was dropped.
I can fully understand that your loyalties lie with the police, but I have to say as a regular member of the public (and not someone with an axe to grind over the police), this case and the example you quote do look a lot like overzealous policing, and I'm not quite prepared to not entertain that notion on the basis of what goes round on the police grapevine.
I'm sure you'll agree that
if there was overzealous policing, this is not good for the police as a whole.