my mate the ex copper told me he had passed the entry level fitness test just before he left and i wasMy thoughts align with Solid's in that we will have no coppers left - It's certainly not what I was alluding to in my rant on the previous page, we need to understand why this has come about and I point more at the indoctrination of the system by our politicians and the officers training.
I said in my rant, why do coppers instantly go to a tasar these days, or instantly cuff someone, it's certainly not my experience of how things use to be done back in the day, unless you watched too much of the Sweeney.
I was watching the bladerunner the other night, the guy that films all the taking down of the ULEZ cameras - he's just been up in court, to be charged at a later date for an altercation with a traffic warden - you can imagine what it was like lol.
But there was another video of his I watched, where he was being his usual provocative self, and he was taking the piss out of two female police officers, I forget the names he tagged them with, but he was referring to their height, sort of around 5 foot for one and 5ft 2in for the other, and of course he's a big guy, so they looked like dwarfs.
He's like so who are these two going to be able to arrest. Quite cantankerously as always, but with a laugh and a smile and one of the two officers tried not to laugh.
However, all piss taking aside, maybe this is the real problem, maybe the male colleague cuffed Nowak because they know these days that situations can quickly escalate out of control when your colleagues are only short arses. They do not have confidence, so therefore do not feel safe when dealing with confrontation.
So the go to is the safeguard.
Maybe our constant aim of equal opportunities sometimes creates risks, and in to that the mix of political rhetoric from all sides, and you end up with a deadly concoction of poor decision making that results in extreme outcomes.
The whole system is too blame, not one particular copper, but it makes it easy for everyone if you make them the fall guy, rather than having to look at the more complicated and deeper problems within the force, due to the tick box exercises they all have to confirm to and a recruitment process that is desperate.
"get ****ed no way are you doing the cross country run in the required time with that gut "
him " its just a bleep test these days and i passed no problem as did Ron who is a really fat **** "
so yeah the physical standards have dropped but since no regular tests on existing officers were going on half of them would only catch a runner if they were in the car