Just left Tesco. Handwritten note on the windscreen of my patrol car. '£100 fine for shopping on duty'. If only I could tell the person who wrote it that I have just spent the last 7 hours at the sudden death of a baby. I'd bought a sandwich. We're not robots.
#BeKind
#WoundUp
Sat with a prisoner in hospital for 7 hours yesterday. Throughout, he was given a bacon balm, two sausage rolls, 4 chocolate biscuits, an apple, & 4 hot drinks. The two police officers who hadn't assaulted their mother's got nothing and didn't eat all day. What a country we have.
We've been told today to remove our
#ThinBlueLine
patches from our body armour as it may cause offence. I will not be removing mine & my staff won't either. Us bobbies all know what that patch means, and we remember our colleagues who made the ultimate sacrifice. ❤️🇬🇧
I bought a homeless guy a drink a week ago. I was on duty getting my own lunch at the time, he didn't ask. Somebody has taken my car reg down & rang in a complaint about me for 'feeding him'. Get a life. If I saved a drowning kid they would still find complaint.
#Policing2021
🚔
Arrested a teacher last night for drink driving. All over the road, blew 92 in custody. She had her daughter in the car with her, & had the cheek to tell me, & I quote "You've ruined my life". I literally have no time for these people, probably saved her daughters life.
#Fatal4
1) I've seen 5 dead bodies in 4 weeks. Talked a 19 year old down who had already cut her neck. Attended a male on male rape. First on scene to a bad stabbing, & dozens of mental health calls. I've just asked for two days off for a break from it all & my annual leave was rejected.
A woman behind me on the plane last night was discussing how drunk she was and would be driving home from the airport as "who's gonna breathalyse me at this time of night?". The colleagues that I rang so you didn't drive & kill someone, that's who. Always listening. 🚫🚔🥂
Student officer I am tutoring had homophobic abuse shouted at him earlier during an arrest. Force was needed to detain the male, and after taking him to the floor, by himself, my student said to him "Are you okay down there babe?" And its the funniest things I've ever heard.👮♂️🏳️🌈
To the person who just reversed into someone's car and drove away, you did it right in front of 8 off duty police officers on our way to a night out. You'll find this out very soon yourself when your door bell goes. Unlucky. 👌😎🚔
Daily life of being a police officer.... I've just been informed of a complaint against me, well two actually. Motorist rang in saying I was driving too fast past them on a blue light run. The member of the public I was driving to complained I didn't get there quick enough.. 🤔🤔
We have to buy our own boots to go to work in the police, but MP's have been given the green light to put christmas parties and decorations on their tax payer funded expenses. Madness.
Just walked into Tesco, gathered all the staff, & told them the shop is laid out completely wrong. The manager asked me how would I know how to do their job? I said I am a police officer and people tell me how to do mine every day, I thought that's how it worked...
#policing2020
Absolutely blown away by the response to my tweet. It's hard to see at times, as we deal with the worst society has to offer most days, but the good people clearly far outweigh the bad based on the messages I have received. My faith in humanity is restored. Thank you. 💙🚔
I went to a job yesterday with my new student. The lady invited us in & we sat down to take her report. She turned to me & said "Would you like coffee?" She then turned to my student and said "Would you like a juice?". He's 19 but does look 12. I completely lost it!!! 🤣🤣🤣🧃🧃
We've got a new Sgt, he's got 27 years in, old school. Sent a student home from parade yesterday to shave after he'd been told about his stubble two days on the bounce. I've seen it happen a few times in my service, 99% of the room had not. The shock 😂😂😂😂.
#Standards
🪒🚔⛔️
Deployed taser yesterday. First time since I was trained in 2009. I've drawn it, aimed, etc, but never fired. Scum of the earth spat in a colleagues hair telling her he had covid-19, he then picked up a golf club. When taser works, it works!! Prison for him hopefully.
#X2
⚡🚔
'POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTERS'. Utter utter bullsh!t. We don't go out to clash with protesters. We go out, hope to stand there all day, be very bored, then go home. Not battered, not bleeding, not with broken bones. Support your police. 🚔💙
Probationer got ridiculed by a Sgt on briefing the other day for claiming overtime for 90 minutes. I spoke up & defended him in a room full of people. Never be ashamed to claim what you're entitled to, police, or otherwise. I made the Sgt look like a tit so we had the last laugh.
I got pulled over last night, on duty. Traffic Inspector in a marked car, me in an unmarked car. He said it looked odd where we were parked up. I told him it was even more odd that he was out of the office. He had no comeback. Bants. 🤣🚔🤣🚔
I interveined off duty when I saw a man punch a woman (his wife) in the face. I identified myself, he then attacked me. I punched him once,to stop him, which worked. He complained. Clear cut job?.. 9 months later it's been no further actioned. Really makes you not want to bother.
A guy went mad at me at a job today, quite rightly, response times are a joke. Once everything was calm & sorted, I told him the area that I cover (LARGE!) & asked him how many officers did he genuinely think were on duty covering it. He said 100 officers, there were 8 of us.🤯🧠
Student officer "Its too hot Sg, honestly, foot patrol in this?" The Sgt "Yeah I know how you feel, 45 degrees in Afghanistan, I found foot patrol hard too". Silence all around.... 😂😂😂😂💪💪💪💪
On duty in December and I stopped to get a drink. I came back to the car and there was phlegm all over my window, and the ANPR aerial snapped off the roof. No cctv! The boss authorised CSI, DNA hit, and the idiot was arrested and admitted the criminal damage. Unlucky!! 🤣😁👍🚔😎
I would absolutely love the people saying police don't need the vaccine to do a few shifts. Come to the covid deaths, touch the dead bodies, sort the fights & domestics out from '2 metres away', mental health jobs, sat in hospitals etc etc. I think their minds would change, fast.
Stopped a car last night, 3 up, passenger stunk of weed. He asked me was I on my own, spidey senses telling me he was thinking of fighting or running... So I told him that I was alone, apart from my german shepherd in the cage. Bullshitted my way right out of that one. 🤣👌🚔🐾
Two of our student officers (12 & 19 months service) have put their resignations in in the last 5 days. All of us with service have spoken to them, no turning back, minds made up. There will be more to follow, young & old if the current climate continues. Sad times in policing.
A young man (18) got the shock of his life last night when he attacked my colleague and I. I honestly think he thought we would just stand there and take it. Contrary to popular belief, we don't go to work to get assaulted, and will defend ourselves when we need to. 👮🏼♂️👮♀️🚔
We do an operation on nights where we check on houses to prevent owners becoming victims. Last night at 2AM I found a front door wide open, a brand new BMW on the drive. I pressed the bell & woke the owner. He went mad. Screamed at me did I have nothing better to do.
#Policing2022
I got a complaint once from two people for the same job. A motorist complained I was driving too fast on blue lights, & the person I was driving to said I didn't get there fast enough. And that in a nutshell is being a police officer. Damned if you do, & damned if you don't. 😶🚔
You won't see this in the news... Deployed Taser on Thursday against a 6ft tall 16 year old with a baseball bat. Off his head on god knows what. Yes he's a child, & yes I am safe, and sat at home enjoying my weekend off, as are his mum and 10 year old sister he'd battered. 👌⚡🚔
After all these years it still baffles me the looks we get on duty when buying a drink or some food. To clarify, we are human, we don't run off pixie dust, and we need to stay hydrated and fed like every other person who does a job. 🤯🚔👮♂️👮♀️🧃🥪
If you saw a police officer(s) in a violent struggle and things were clearly going wrong, would you help them? And if not, what are your fears about helping? So many videos circulating of officers being attacked, or making arrests, they're in need, and people are watching on.
Spending half a shift dealing with someone who is being sent abusive messages because they owe their drug dealer money, whilst two tax payers wait over 10 hours for me to attend their houses after being burgled, is everything that is wrong with policing.
If you're undertaking an unmarked police car at 50mph in a 30mph, on your phone, with no seat belt on, and you ask "what have I done?" when stopped, you probably shouldn't have a driving licence. Unreal. 🚔🚨
I haven't issued any covid fines. Not one. I've engaged & explained, engaged & explained. I've had enough now. Anyone I see out without one of the reasons is being reported. We can't continue to go through this again & again. So to the selfish ones in society, enough is enough.
Code brown last night!!! I was sat taking a statement off a lady in her living room, when her python suddenly appeared on the couch behind her!!!! I absolutely sh!t myself!!! She laughed, a lot, I needed new underwear, and thats the quickest I have ever finished an mg11.🐍💩😧
Been looking for a guy for 5 months, he's been a ghost, wanted for aggravated burglary on a community centre. Leaving the cinema last night and I saw him in the queue coming in!! Rang it in, and needles to say he missed his film! 🍿🎬🚔🤣
Just had the best 'insult' I have ever had given to me in my service so far... Drunk male under arrest, "I HOPE YOUR CHRISTMAS DINNER IS BURNT AND YOUR FAMILY TURN UP LATE". Hit me deep this one... 🤷♂️🤣🍽🎄Best insult you've had thrown at you??...
Arrested a horrible b
@stard
a few weeks ago. Out in an unmarked car and saw him kicking his 12 month old staffy down the pavement. He was also wanted for 3 burglaries, found out today he's been sent back to prison. Good riddance to a waste of oxygen. 🚔🏡🐶👍
Driving an unmarked car yesterday and saw someone fly-tipping near a school. Made them pick every piece of sh!t up they had dumped and reported them for prosecution. Absolute rats people who do it, take your sh!t to a tip like normal human beings. 🚫🗑🐀🚔
Remember, 99% of police officers are good decent people. We go to work every day to help people and protect the general public. We despise the bent, corrupt, criminal few more than anyone, believe me. They are not colleagues.
@NormanBrennan
@MPFed
@metpoliceuk
I have been so close recently to recording my body warn video off the screen, posting it myself, and facing the consequences from my force. Sick and tired of the public seeing 30 seconds of one side of things. We need far better support from the higher ups.
When a suspect makes off from a car, 20 minutes pass, you think they've made good, but then you hear the distant bark of a land shark!!!! One in custody thanks to our furry colleague, wanted for burglary on an 80 year old victim. Love the dogs. 💙🐶🐾🚔
I've just refereed a 20 minute argument between neighbours about why the other doesn't pick up their dogs WEE 🤯!!! A double crewed taser patrol, emergency police vehicle, deployed to that. And people wonder why we're so short on staff. Public order it came in as. What a joke. 🚔
When my mum asks me how work was, I still to this day after all these years lie to her. "Fine, all good, boring". I just know she wouldn't be able to handle it if told her the sh!t that I see and go to. I don't think many members of the public actually really know.
I've seen a few posts today about the new mobile phone laws whilst driving, saying they're very strict. If you're fortunate enough to have never had to pick body parts up from a road after someone died using their phone, then you're lucky. It's not hard, put the phone away. 📱🚫
Well my newest student just learnt a big lesson on day 3.... Police dog on lead at a job, dog officer updating a colleague with her head slightly turned away, student steps in for a stroke of the landshark... Nnnnnnnnnnnoooooooo!!!! New underwear required!!!.. 🙈🙈🐶🐶🐾🐾👮♂️👮♂️
Knocks on front door, "Morning, we need to speak to Mr ...". "He's not here, not seen him for a few weeks"... Kid at the door as well.. "Daddy is in mummy, he's in the toilet".... Kids don't lie at that age... 🙈🙈🙈🙈😂😂😂🚔🚔🚔
If I only arrested drink drivers, all day, every day, I would still never get bored. Despise them with a passion. Taxi, train, get picked up, it is life changing when we catch you. 🚔🚨🍻🚫
Stop checked a guy yesterday sleeping in a tent by the side of a lay-by. Turned out to be an Iraq/Afghanistan army veteran who's struggled for years post military. Spoke for ages & have things lined up to help him. It's not all about arrests & crime, he deserves far better. 🇬🇧🎖
Using your mobile phone to pay at the drive thru, whilst stationary, with the engine off, is now a new offence!! This offence was created by the person who filmed me paying with my phone and made a formal complaint. Two points. 1) Get a life. 2) Get a life. 🤯☕️🚔📱
#NoOffences
If I walked up to you at your place of work and tw
@tted
you in the face, I would fully expect you to defend yourself. Why people continue to think it's okay to do the same to police officers and not expect to be dealt with is beyond me!!!
I find it sad that when somebody is off work with a physical illness or injury we have collections for flowers, cards, etc, & rightly so. But when somebody is off with a mental health illness we don't, literally never. I'm going to change that on my section.
#MentalHealthMatters
My student officer found a lock knife today on her second ever person search. When nerves are present as is normal when new, no rush, took her time, in control, wasn't distracted by the usual abuse being thrown, knife found under suspects bra strap in a tricky spot. 👌👮♀️🔪🚔
I take great pleasure in putting a big hard man who's beaten his wife and daughter to a pulp into handcuffs. Absolute scum of the earth, and he's on his way to prison. Why I still do what I do despite the hate we face on a daily basis. 🚔🔐
RTC yesterday, two vehicles. I was first on scene, traffic colleagues were miles away. Got everyone out the vehicles, giving first aid, two people with cuts. Guy comes up and starts filming me as I had parked my car on a grass verge!!! This is the world we work in every day.
An 8 year old, 14 year old, 17 year old. The ages of people I have been sent to this set of shifts alone who had self harmed. An 8 year old!! Ambulance service on their arse, mental health services full, police officers being sent in their place. So wrong for all. Broken system.
By 02:00 hrs this morning we had 2 bobbies left available. This is normal. Every shift, every week, days, lates, or nights. I would love to know where the cops are coming from to visit every burglary victim, etc. It is make believe. We can't even service normal calls for service.
I got saved by the dogs last night!! Dropped my car keys in a field looking for a missing person. Pitch black, no chance, so off my furry landshark colleague was sent by his dad. A bone for him, and a cake fine for me!! 🐾💙🔑🚔🧁
If you went into a bank and assaulted the cashier, you'd expect them to defend themselves. If you went into a shop and assaulted the shop keeper, same. If you assault a police officer, and they defend themselves... Get the picture? Sick of seeing assaults on colleagues.
#Humans
Genuinely believe police recruitment needs to start being honest with people when applying. You will rarely deal with crime. You will 100% deal with many other agencies workloads that have nothing to do with policing. Seeing too many people join & leave due to false advertising.
2) No wonder police officers are leaving the job, breaking down mentally & physically. This will be happening to police officers every day up & down the country. Compare somebody who has my service on the same pay, but works 9-5 in an office. Who is the idiot for being frontline?
The abuse on here today towards nurses on strike & the NHS. Remember those people who got us through the pandemic, the ones we were clapping for? Are we now hating on them are we? So quick to forget, unreal. Pay them what they deserve and fund them to give the best possible care.
Shock, disbelief. What? Why? How? Just a few of the words used by my ride along last night when he could see burglaries, theft from motor vehicle, criminal damage jobs on the screen, proper police work, but we were not sent to them, as we dealt with mental health all night.
The police. I am allowed to face somebody with a sword, machete, axe, chainsaw, no problem, but they won't let me put a whiteboard up in our office because of health and safety. 🤯🧠🚔
#Policing2021
I was called a 'racist gang member' at a job last night for having the thin blue line badge and my poppy pin on my body armour. I genuinely do not recognise the place I grew up in and began my policing career in anymore.
#LestWeForget
#ThinBlueLine
Sat in hospital for hours yesterday with a prisoner who spoke about his service in the Army, friends he'd lost etc. My oppo, ex-Army himself, listened to all his stories, then he unravelled them all with a few basic questions. I've never understood stolen valour, f*cking vile.
Stopped a car yesterday, no lights on, classic sign of a drink driver. Got the breathalyser out but didn't need it, driver had just forgotten. 5 hours later.. Me- Where's the breathalyser? My student- Ermmmm??... Then remembers putting it on the roof of our car earlier!!!! 😵🚔🍰
I watched a man get angry at the cashier in Tesco last night as there was a long queue, rude & obnoxious. He declined a carrier bag, carried his pile of shopping away, he got about 20 feet outside the shop & dropped everything on the road. Karma is real people.
#BeKind
🤣🤣
Non taser trained officers can attend a person with a knife, baseball bat, etc, with just a metal stick and 6 seconds of pava, no problem... But can't take a pedal bike out for patrol without going on a course...
#Policing2023
The people screaming all over Twitter about why the police officer isn't ripping the glued hands of protestors off petrol pumps are the same people who would be screaming police brutality if the police officer had done, & their skin was hanging off their hands. Damned if we do...
If you ring the police about a neighbour complaint, and ask us to come out to see you, it may be worth remembering that you have a cannabis grow in your house. Smelt like Amsterdam as we walked in. Master criminals...
#LockedUp
😶🚔🌿
I have more service in the police than the other 10 officers combined on our briefing this morning. Scary as hell the inexperience we have now with people leaving as they've had enough, long term sick due to burnout etc. The responsibility on such young shoulders isn't right.
🚨Ride along tonight!!!🚨. A University Professor is coming out with my colleague and I on nights. The job usually put these people with the yes men, those who will pretend all is well. Not tonight. He'll be getting shown the honest and real state of response policing 2022. 🚔👌
It appears many people would like police officers to not turn up for work today. They want to be left to do what they want, its a police state!! These same people would then ring 999, get no response, and complain that there's no police. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
Had quite a few replies to my drink drive tweet. As much as we would have liked to watch her drive away to then arrest her & have her licence, the risk is far too high. We couldn't knowingly allow her to drive drunk and then risk her crashing & seriously inuring someone or worse.
Seen a few tweets saying the US cops who stopped the school shooter aren't brave, its their job! Going to a pub fight is brave, going to a violent domestic incident is brave. What they did is beyond brave, and I won't hear otherwise. They've also saved multiple lives.
#Nashville
If you turned up to work today, whatever your job is, hat off to you. Everyone is running on empty, no staff, employers constantly expecting more for less. You turned up, and you can only do what you can do.
As bad as this job of ours can be at times, there is no greater pleasure than catching a burgling little rat who has been on the run for 5 months, as we did last night. They are the days when you remember why you joined the cops. 🔒🔑🚔👮🏼♂️👮♀️
If you've been wronged by a police officer in your life time, I completely understand your dislike, your hatred even. I despise the bad ones with a passion. However, we really aren't all c*nts. We're normal people. We like catching the scum of society & locking them up.
#TalkToUs
Some crazy DM's recieved after tweeting about pay yesterday. My favourite one was that we should work for free because nobody needs us anyway and we're a pointless service. I looked at his account, I'm no detective, but he's definitely used the police before!!...🤣🤣🤣
#FreeCops
Assistance call yesterday, colleague singly crewed struggling with a violent male who'd been homophobic to him. Colleague safe & well thankfully when we landed. Our customers face when the van that arrived to transport him had a pride flag on the side of it was hysterical! 🤣🚔🏳️🌈
You still don't get used to christmas day arrests even after years of working christmas. My mind just doesn't comprehend how by 10am on Christmas day your kids are in bits and wife has a fat lip. Welcome to our world!!! Happy Christmas all, have a good one.🎄😁🚔
A message to all police bosses. Irrespective of rank, none of you are that important to not be nice to your staff. Manners cost nothing, don't forget where you came from.
When your work phone rings, you answer, and it's a "We've been told you we're in a car accident" call... So I respond with "Yes, on duty, in a marked police vehicle, who told you?". *Phone goes dead*.... 🤣👋🚔📱
If you see an emergency services worker today, say hello. We spend most days working with the worst society has to offer and its always nice to have a normal conversation!! Enjoy your weekend whatever you're doing. 👍🙂🚔🚑🚒
To the MP's who battled on the covid wards to save lives, didn't see their loved ones through fear of making them sick for months on end, who kept the country running through the pandemic, you fully deserve your pay rise! Oh wait, that was the NHS. You disgust us
@10DowningStreet
A complaint from a male who had a cricket bat a few weeks back which caused me to draw my taser. " I didn't know it was police, he didn't say". *Body warn camera reviewed* Daylight, me in full uniform shouting "POLICE OFFICER WITH TASER, DROP THE BAT NOW!!".. Don't do drugs kids.
He rang his mates to come and save him whilst this angel was dying on the floor. I hope he gets what is coming to him back in prison. It is scum like this that the death penalty should still exist for.
#RIPOlivia
💙
@NormanBrennan
Not only arrests, i've been filmed giving CPR, literally like rats running around, leaning in with phones to get some footage of a person fighting for their life on the pavement. Society is literally sick.
Police first aid training is shockingly bad. New students coming through who've worked for fast food places etc have said the training was far better there. Considering we're first on scene every day to medical emergencies with the ambulance service being on its arse, bad times.