cobby wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:16 pm
Out of 5 encounters I've had 4 who were understanding of the situation , , , , and 1 who was nothing but an outright ****
Some are fine, others are on a ridiculous power trip
DougieK wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:00 am
This is exactly the problem. What is actually a guideline, and a vague one, has been left to the interpretation of the police, which means that inconsistency will be prevalent.
Police aren't robots, tempers flare, egos kick in etc and suddenly an 'i live here' turns into an hour of stuffing about.
I agree
Keeping in mind, the Police don't make the rules/laws but they are the ones that have to enforce them AND contrary to public opinion, the Police would have been given some guild-lines on how to apply them. BUT unfortunately there are some Police who (I'm being diplomatic) could have applied the Law more prudently and with some empathy. This same criticism of the Police is no different to how the Police apply the Road Rules.
Most Police ARE good and they even know that some Police in their ranks are , , , , not ideal.
We don't see the Police Reports associated with the fines issued, we just get the media's version.
An example:
That bloke who got fined for eating a Kebab on a park-bench, as the media portrayed it.
That bloke couldn't verify that what he was doing was "essential" and that he felt the need to leave home to do it, in-lieu of getting a kebab then going and eating it at home.
That bloke was warned on two separate occasions on that day prior to being fined THAT what he was doing
was not deemed to be essential. Keep in mind that the bloke was there long enough to get warned two times previously, so he wasn't "just eating a kebab" in that whole time. If the bloke agreed with it or not is one issue BUT there was no denying the consequences if he persisted. He made that "defiant" choice to stay. So third strike you're out.
So the Police did well, warning him twice BUT the media portrayed that the bloke simply got fined for eating a kebab.
We can micro criticise the Police but they are trying to manage the bigger picture.
I for one appreciate the unenviable task that they perform
Cheers, Bugatti