tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post3455029648467243378..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: Smug Scottish Police Federation spit out the dummy on stop and searchLallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-70227304076826671742015-02-11T12:19:41.251+00:002015-02-11T12:19:41.251+00:00Sirrah - ensure your horseless carriage lights are...Sirrah - ensure your horseless carriage lights are fully operational and your horseless carriage wheel treads are of the required depth for the foreseeable future.Billy Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07832309428693497575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-22007412866629396902015-02-11T12:18:23.487+00:002015-02-11T12:18:23.487+00:00Sirrah - ensure your horseless carriage lights are...Sirrah - ensure your horseless carriage lights are fully operational and your horseless carriage wheel treads are of the required depth for the foreseeable future.Billy Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07832309428693497575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-42175588939578488182015-02-10T17:37:19.179+00:002015-02-10T17:37:19.179+00:00Mmm.
Your man's letter to MSP's does seem...Mmm.<br /><br />Your man's letter to MSP's does seem quite high handed. I suppose it would help his case if the police had the confidence of the public it exists to serve.<br /><br />Unfortunately it doesn't.<br /><br />So on balance, in terms of stop & search, they can get rooted.<br /><br />pa_broon74https://www.blogger.com/profile/01915208411019621104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-44680439947779539392015-02-10T14:59:36.719+00:002015-02-10T14:59:36.719+00:00"Stop and search" seems overly gentle as..."Stop and search" seems overly gentle as a term for waylaying people and confiscating their drugs and alcohol. I call it theft. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-78691569019990288082015-02-10T14:41:46.986+00:002015-02-10T14:41:46.986+00:00That triggers old memories of a similar kind aroun...That triggers old memories of a similar kind around the mid 1950's. Being ambushed and held in a back close by two or three polis for the crime of kicking a ball around and, for those with the cojones to speak back,a good slap or three about the head.Done not so much to uphold any law but to intimidate with sarcasm and instill a fear of police authority at a young age.<br /><br />Didn't seem to work,in fact had the reverse effect,as the cry of ERRAFUNNYPOLIS was heard loud and clear anytime they appeared.<br /><br />Please consult your "parliamo glesca" for translation. kailyard ruleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11098989013431186162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-61167218524610975172015-02-10T09:24:58.611+00:002015-02-10T09:24:58.611+00:00Well said Andrew. A lot of this goes way back, is...Well said Andrew. A lot of this goes way back, is embedded in our policing culture. <br /><br />An anecdote from 1960 - I paused to talk to some pals outside a close in the old vanished Taylor St in Townhead. We were grabbed by two cops and accused of 'loitering' and were eventually hauled up before the second most senior cop in Glasgow who - in his busy life - found time to berate our parents for our wicked behaviour (and got an earful back).<br /><br />At the time, the police were known to walk away from serious disturbances in Glasgow, or were strategically not present. I used to collect the war pension off my dad from the Saracen's Head where he worked, and even on a Wednesday afternoon, scenes of disorder were not infrequent on the Gallowgate.<br /><br />In those days of course, firms openly operated sectarian hiring polices - winked at by the STUC and the Kirk Holy Willies - municipal corruption was rife and largely unchallenged. We laugh at the freemasons now, but in those says they were a serious force in the west of Scotland - as late as the mid 70s I can remember a mason in the lighting dept who burned down his depot, sold his staff' s uniforms in the pub and turned up drunk regularly - and was promoted.<br /><br />Our civic culture has evolved but we can always improve; Mr Steele, sadly, sounds awfy like that pompous loon who had a go at me and my parents in 1960.<br /><br />Oh and pedant point - Mr Steel seems to be confusing 'dictate' with 'diktat', which is not altogether surprising I suppose.<br />Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-47163103952911951962015-02-10T08:18:29.102+00:002015-02-10T08:18:29.102+00:00Shame he didn't also mention the unpardonable ...Shame he didn't also mention the unpardonable interference by politicians in preventing PC MacPlod from patrolling the streets of cesspits of crime like Inverness armed to the teeth. Richard Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17225331967587897653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-32222865182688693582015-02-09T22:31:38.848+00:002015-02-09T22:31:38.848+00:00AYE well said LPW. Thank you
AYE well said LPW. Thank you<br />Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730515405538297057noreply@blogger.com