Female police officers in London could be told to...
Pull their weight better?
...wear hairnets again, as an incoming chief says a smart uniform plays a key part in public confidence in the force.
*blinks* WTAF..?
Dame Lynne Owens, who takes over as deputy commissioner next month, criticised 'inconsistent hairstyles worn on duty' and suggested that standards of dress for all serving officers in the Met would be examined.
Christ, wasn't Cressida Dick bad enough? We have to have this mad bint in the (thankfully temporary) hotseat to trash what's left of the Met's reputation?
If that's even possible...
The force is currently in special measures due 'systemic' failings, officers were found to have shared 'grossly offensive' messages in a WhatsApp group with Wayne Couzens and recently a mother recorded one officer telling her 'I'd like to search you'.
When Dame Lynne posted the photo, a user questioned her priorities, to which she replied: 'I honestly believe the two are connected. Of course the primary measure is public service.'
No, the primary measure is to root out the bad apples who see being a police officer as a fast route to ripping off the public.
Daily shockwaves and scandal persistently rock that cushy, Metropolitan pentekontor. However, for the protection of its porcine crew, it is unlikely to steer a course into the wild ocean of Meaningful Changes. Expendable citizens must conclude that no prospects of a one-way abattoir trip for the worst curly-tailed criminals, or castration for its squad of compulsive sex offenders in uniform, are imminent.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, Julia,...in this epic odyssey back into respectable standards for a public service, mandatory clips and hairnets are probably the most formidable measures we can hope to see anytime soon...
I know I harp on about it, but …
ReplyDelete‘This’ is exactly what you are guaranteed to get when you appoint a woman to position of power, whose only qualifications for the job are that she has a vagina. (Dame? And just what did she do to earn that, I wonder, it certainly wasn’t job-related - I wonder which senior officer/politician got to do a Clinton).
When women stop voting “tribally” (like everyone else, except white males, hereafter to be known collectively as “the mugs”) and demanding one of the tribe be appointed, even if no one qualified (let alone 50+%), or experienced exists, perhaps we’ll see someone who ‘merits’ the position for a change.
(It’s just like the hilarious demands that 20% of RAF recruits be ‘ethnics’, higher than their percentage of the population, when you already can’t find enough qualified members from that tribe, even with preferential recruitment, bribes, and overlooking failures of the most basic tests and ‘allowing’ them to pass – and that’s for the catering jobs, not pilots FFS).
She’s rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic, because … that’s all she is capable of.
That her first act is to address the girlies couture says it all, doesn’t it (I just bet the curtains in all the stations get a revamp too).
When Rudi Giuliani cleaned up NYC he started with the small things like littering and so on. He succeeded, the change was noticeable. Maybe, just maybe, this is the first baby step of the march to clean out the Mets.
ReplyDelete"...in this epic odyssey back into respectable standards for a public service, mandatory clips and hairnets are probably the most formidable measures we can hope to see anytime soon..."
ReplyDeleteThat's a thoroughly depressing thought.😣
"I know I harp on about it, but …
‘This’ is exactly what you are guaranteed to get when you appoint a woman to position of power, whose only qualifications for the job are that she has a vagina."
I have to agree. Her track record is woeful.
"When Rudi Giuliani cleaned up NYC he started with the small things like littering and so on."
And how long did it take for the curent incumbent to completely undo all his hard work?
If the Police are genuinely worried about how their force presents to the public then they could make a start with the ghastly tattoos that so many of them seem to think are so beautiful and 'professional'
ReplyDeleteFast route to ripping off the public? For many years the police around my area have been little better than revenue gathers preying on those who will pay up and not cause them trouble. Solving crime or mixing it with nasty criminals is a distant bad memory for them.
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