PC Ian Risden, from the Castle Point and Rochford community policing team, was one of the police officers who attended the scene.
Soon after the incident, he tweeted to say that abuse had been hurled in his and his team’s direction when dealing with the situation.
He tweeted: “My team and officers from Essex Police roads policing unit have been trying to deal with a crash with injuries this morning in Benfleet.
“We have been subjected to abuse by a member of the public.
“This is not acceptable someone is injured and needs help.
“Disruption unavoidable.”
Is this what the police have come to? Is this what they use social media for? Whining that people were mean to them, like a teenage girl?
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There was a time when the police commanded the respect of the general public and ordinary people wouldn't have dreamt of abusing them. Unfortunately they've lost that respect over the last few years with politically correct policing policy.
"Whining that people were mean to them, like a teenage girl?"
Surely not blubbering, Shirley? Just when the second opportunity arose this week to be late for work in order to merrily start a mile-long conga chain with other stranded commuters, some killjoy moaned at Mr Plod; who was undertaking his most dangerous duty to install barriers across six lanes of traffic. How ungrateful can folk be, WC Jaded? Repeated Taserings for culprits plus back o' the van transport with starving police dogs, Penise?
Hold it, I feel a another compensation claim coming on...
Ungrateful little sod didn't roll up his sleeves and help the police then? Just stood idly by and slagged them off. Typical Essex low life!
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Very little point in them arresting the gobshite i'm afraid. As one of the more seemingly knowledgeable commentators on the article said: "
Case law suggests otherwise, where police officers are involved"-emcee 13th August 3:40 am
In other words hurling verbal abuse at anyone, even PCs, can be an offence under the Public Order Act but in the case of Police Officers courts tend to expect them to 'take it'.
Wrong of course but that's the world we live in.
I have lived in different countries and observe that UK police do not believe in getting traffic moving after an accident. If there are four lanes they will close all of them while systematically investigating the accident in the left hand one. Sod the travelling public, their plans and blood pressure.
jk,
I believe the case law referred to was when obscene language was used in a general sense by someone in a conversation with a Police officer. At that time, the officer was not, himself, subjected to obscene abuse. Sections 4 & 5 of the Public Order Act do apply and Police officers can still be subjected to harassment, alarm or distress. If not, does that mean they can not be subjected to that when off duty as they are still Police officers?
A few years ago, when I was in the Job, was helping at a fatal road traffic collision and began laying out cones to close one of the lanes on a dual carriageway. A car stopped and a middle aged man complained, using very forceful language, that the delay meant he would miss teeing off in a golf tournament. I asked him if he had a son and when he said he did, I told him that the young man being cut out of the wreckage of the car ahead could be his son. Expecting a complaint, he came to the Police station the next day to apologise and produced a huge bouquet of flowers with a sympathy card for the family of the young man.
You do get ignorant members of the Public who feel that you are deliberately causing them delays, and I've had a few of them, but you sometimes get those who understand why you are doing what you are doing. They are few and far between, but they are there. The Community PC should have just sucked it up, kept quiet, and accepted that that man was a twat.
Penseivat
"Expecting a complaint, he came to the Police station the next day to apologise and produced a huge bouquet of flowers..."
Tune in next week for another exciting story from the Lying Bar Steward series, children.
Melv judging everybody by his own standards again. Have I mentioned Melvin the paedophile recently?
Penseivat
Tune in tomorrow for another Latin quote, another patronising correction of grammar, another lesson from the policing expert, another hilarious collection of tales from the Huddersfield asylum.
Jaded.
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Jaded
"There was a time when the police commanded the respect of the general public.."
Sadly true. Also true, sadly: that time is no more.
"Wrong of course but that's the world we live in."
And who made it so? Can't we unmake it?
"...but you sometimes get those who understand why you are doing what you are doing. They are few and far between, but they are there. The Community PC should have just sucked it up, kept quiet, and accepted that that man was a twat."
Yes. It demeans the uniform even further to whinge about it like a teenage girl on social media.
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