Carol Richards, 68, and husband David, 66, of Bridgend travelled 10 miles to visit dementia sufferer Decima Minhinnick at Picton Court Care Home. They were reprimanded by police on the way back despite having received permission to see Ms Minhinnick and handed a £60 penalty.
Jesus! Imagine that conversation in the police canteen:
"Any good jobs today?"
"Yes, caught a burglar red-handed, just booked him in at custody."
"Me and my dog tracked down a lost missing disabled child in the woods, we're just back from the hospital."
"I stopped a couple visiting their dementia hit mother at her care home and gave them a fine."
*stunned silence*
So...what sort of hairy-arsed dinosaur of an unreconstructed police officer was so stupid? I mean, it must have been one of those uncaring hard-nosed blokes, right?
Mrs Richards had described the incident as 'dystopian', adding: 'A police lady flagged us down and I thought 'Oh right, they're policing the area, that's fine'.
Oh...
'So I explained to her that we were going home, we'd been to Picton Court visiting my mother but she said this was a non-essential visit.
She said 'We'd all like to knock on our mother's window to see them but you can't do that'.'
'I was totally gobsmacked. I was angry. She just would not listen to any protestations and so she said 'You're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.'
Remember this, the next time they start to say how 'feminising' the police would be a good thing...
The couple said they do not believe they breached lockdown rules and have complained to the Police Complaints Commissioner.
And the police are scrambling to get out ahead of the oncoming critiscism...
South Wales Police have now rescinded the fine after reviewing the incident, following a public backlash to the growing war on shutdown flouters.
But it shouldn't stop the complaint. Because the real issue here is this:
According to Welsh Government guidelines, outdoor visits to care homes are allowed for 'compassionate reasons'.
Why did the police officer not know this? Why did she feel confident in issuing the fine? And...which number checkout will she eventually be working at Lidl when they do what they should do, and fire her useless arse?
That's not going to happen - Lidl are fussy who they employ.
ReplyDeleteAt Lidl the dos and donts are very taken seriously
ReplyDeleteHere in West Yorkshire, a meeting of Plods Anonymous got underway with the group's first addict receiving applause for "It's been over a week since I last booked a motorist for exceeding the speed limit by 1 mph."
ReplyDeleteWhat's Welsh for "Would you like fries with that?"
ReplyDeletePenseivat
She won't be sacked, instead she will be fast tracked for promotion.
ReplyDeleteHard of thinking? There is a career for you in the modern police force.
ReplyDeleteCan someone please post on here a copy of the speeding ticket they received for going 1mph over the limit?
ReplyDeleteYes that's right...it never happens despite how many times Captain Tinfoil writes this lie on here.
Jaded
A little hyperbole obviously. I have however been stung for straying 5mph over, on a dead straight road, clear and perfect weather conditions, no other vehicles or pedestrians present, on a piece of road that has never seen a single accident of any kind. I have also been driving for 45 years and have a 100% safety record, not a single accident of any kind. Non of these details are taken into account with one size fits all lazy policing. The over zealous behaviour regarding Covid restrictions, especially in contrast to the reluctance to deal with more serious matters, is making the police more and more loathed and despised by the public who now see them as their enemy.
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ReplyDeleteGreek roots and rhetoric are often lost on the 'educatid'.
I was brought up to regard the police as my friends. I actually made two citizens arrests in my younger days and considered it everyone else citizen's duty to assist them. They have now lost sight entirely of Peel's Principles however. They no longer police by consent and are in danger of being seen as mere enforcers for the Establishment; thugs for the Man. I now give them as wide a berth as possible. I don't belong to any of the "communities" their bosses with Sociology degrees train them to favour and feel sure I would come out badly from any interaction with them. I don't trust them at all.
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ReplyDeleteFor those of us who still have clear memories of village life going back to the late 1940's, we can make a shocking comparison of today's police with the very different way they were once organised. Youngsters now find it incredible that the local sergeant was an important community figure and usually a well-liked, social player. Youths would stop a fist-fight as he passed, pushing his heavy black bicycle and pretending to be unaware of what was going on. He knew our parents by their first names and would enter the back house door after a cursory knock and "Are you in?" He gathered all the local gossip and reports of strangers acting oddly. Ignoring a burglary to harass motorists would have been unthinkable. So it was, that once upon a time, the police were trusted and were once effective with our support. It worked well enough and communities did nothing to deserve the expensive, often weird 'plod' we have today.
I do not make the above points out of any need for nostalgia, only to suggest that modern communications lend a return to the original style of proven policing. If and when respect ever returns to policing, it will attract recruits who are fit to hold office, JuliaM.
"That's not going to happen - Lidl are fussy who they employ."
ReplyDeleteHeh!
"She won't be sacked, instead she will be fast tracked for promotion."
Sadly, you're probably right. It's a pity the victims didn't reveal her name. So we could keep a watching brief.
"The over zealous behaviour regarding Covid restrictions, especially in contrast to the reluctance to deal with more serious matters, is making the police more and more loathed and despised by the public who now see them as their enemy."
The rot set in in the Eighties, and it's rapidly accelerating now.
"I was brought up to regard the police as my friends. "
Me too. Well, if not friends, at least a valued, vital service. Now? Not so much.
"If and when respect ever returns to policing, it will attract recruits who are fit to hold office..."
I don't know that it ever can. That was then, this is now, and we are a vastly different 'society' now.