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Have you heard the story of that brit who was robbed in front of a CCTV camera which is installed in the street he lives in ?
Nothing happend. I mean no police, nobody came or cared..
So he called the police to tell them that he was robbed a few hours ago right in front of one of their cameras and asked why nobody came.
They said : "We are very sorry sir , but we dont have enough officers to check all the camera recordings, we dont recieve enough money to employ people that could watch all of the live feeds"
He was (of course) furious.
"They could have killed me right in front of it, and nobody would had recognized"
Those cameras are installed for his security and bought with his tax money and some of them , like the one in his street dont serve any purpose as nobody is watching live feeds on them.
Just like Goose said, this camera is just there to make it possible to persecute crimes, not to prevent them. They dont give any security.
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Close, GG, but - the name was George Orwell (actually born as Eric Blair, no relation to Tony), the writer of "Nineteen Eighty Four", as well as "Animal Farm", "Down and Out in Paris and London" and "The Road to Wigan Pier" and not Orson Wells, a well-known fat actor/director.Originally posted by Goose_Green:
Although the year is wrong but to compare the book 1984 by Orson Wells and what is happening today is quite a remarkable realisation.
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I did 20 years in the Police before being medically retired having been hit by a stolen car and then following further injury incurred taking on the gypsy's who were in a stolen 7.5 ton horse box they'd just stolen. Sorry, Irish Tinkers, cant call them gypsys anymore - this government made them a specific ethnic minority to allow them protection from the race laws.
I was lucky the rules changed the year I was hurt and was given the option of leaving as opposed to being made to 'fly a desk'.
When I left I knew the 'job' was going to rat **** and was glad to go. I said then that real bobbies would end up running around picking up prisoners for all the 'hobby bobbies' as they were then known with which they would then spend hours in the nick dealing with the paperwork for before going to collect the next. Nowadays they are called PCSO's, Police Community Support Officers. In my area they start on £22+k pa and work no earlier than 0700 or later than 2300hrs and 2 weekends in 5. New starters dont get that for 3 shifts, early, late and nights and I know several ex services who've joined with families who had to go cap in hand to the social security for income support to live. I am glad I left, I dont know anyone I knew then who isn't counting the days, hours and minutes until they leave. All the lads nowadays look like they just left school and their attitude stinks. A good example was where I work now we have CCTV, a generator was stolen from an adjoining site and we were asked to supply our CCTV to see if it had anything on it. A kid in uniform turned up and as I handed him the tape I said good luck as I'd had to view hours of tapes before in my time. His response was, and I quote " I'm not going to watch this, I'm going to throw it at C.I.D. and they can do it, I've got better things to do - I'm going out to persecute the public".
The 2 security guards, who knew I was ex Police just looked at me, when he left I said now you know why I'm glad I left.
Like it or lump it, admire them or not the Police service in general across the UK has gone t!ts up. No one will tell you this, no senior officer will admit his mens morale is cr@p and admit most of the senior PC's. CID etc are taking the money and cant wait to 'run'. I'm not saying there's no commitment, just that its not there as it was before. I thought I was a public servant, not a public persecutor. If the people of the UK actually knew the score they'd go mad, like in Stevenage, Hertfordshire for a late turn Saturday 1400 - 2200 shift there were 5 officers on briefing. 2 traffic, 2 area car and 1 dog van.
The Traffic car was already 2 division cover, the dog handler was half county cover which left the 2 WPC's in the area car. The Chief Constable who'd attended unnanounced as was his want to see his 'troops' was amazed at this, he was really upset however when the probationary WPC from the area car announced that after 1700 she was the station duty officer so the car was single crewed. So....The only dedicated car covering a city of several hundred thousand was a single crewed area car from 1700 - 2300 that day but no one knew, no 'wheel fell off' and they got away with it. BTW the chief constable walked out of the door as the duty inspector ran in having been told 'the boss' was in the building to hear him muttering 'but there are more men on the beat'.....
There's only one place you'll hear this, or anything like it said.... at a leaving do when the guy saying its got nothing to lose. Even senior officers keep their gobs shut until the 'do'. I had one where he, an well respected inspector, slated the hierarchy who were all there but disappeared quite quickly as his speech went on. It ended with him throwing his good conduct/long service medal (22 years unblemished service) out the 4th floor window into the street.
I'm not bitter/twisted, really I'm not. I'm glad to be out and still have respect for the guys doing the job.
But the Public of Britain haven't got a bloody clue........ shame really as if they did things might actually get sorted......
Bloody hell!, its a long way down off this soapbox!.........
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