Thanks to your bungled 'investigation'?
“An underwater search team and specialist officers have subsequently attended the scene, entered the water, and have sadly recovered a body. No formal identification has yet been carried out, so we are unable to say whether this is Nicola Bulley at this time,” Lancashire constabulary said in a statement.
“Procedures to identify the body are ongoing. We are currently treating the death as unexplained. Nicola’s family have been informed of developments and our thoughts are with them at this most difficult of times. We ask that their privacy is respected.”If the family's privacy was such a concern, why did officers reveal personal information about her struggle with peri-menopause and alcohol issues then? Was it just because the media were pressing them?
Yes, the media have behaved disgracefully, and Twitter armchair sleuths haven't been much better. But aren't we entitled to a far better performance from the police?
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Lancs police are always posting tweets saying someone is missing, only to follow up in a few hours or a day saying, thanks for your help, we've found them. It maybe that Lancs police are under the impression everyone who goes missing, turns up a few hours later and they were unprepared for a real missing person
Walkers noticed the body in reeds, near to the scene where the mobile 'phone was initially discovered. It was they who guided bumbling plod to the spot. Which saved the costs of trawling the Atlantic and digging up Lancashire's gardens. Anyway, when one can't find one's own arse with both hands and a map....
I am often critical of the police, but I suppose that my criticism is directed at the “(mis?)management".
One the one hand there are circumstances such as Lancashire, be it Thwaites Brewery or Nicola Bulley or the Met with Couzens and so many others, on the other hand there are perfectly good, honest, hardworking people on the frontline.
Over the weekend I met one of the latter – a search trained officer (not in Lancashire!) with two dogs. Once the day’s work was out of the way she was throwing tennis balls, the dogs were getting wet and muddy and there was a supportive audience watching the antics.
During the day several of us had compared the Nicola Bulley situation with that of Alex Bendall in Dorset which has received minimal media attention, but goodness knows why.
It'll be a bugger if it's someone else, won't it?
Because plod are doing such a good job, the National Police Chiefs' council has now claimed that 'there' members will leave in droves if they are not awarded substantial pay increases to reflect 'there' unique contribution to society, including responsibility to run toward danger.
Gosh...my first reaction was to make generous public donations of popcorn coincidental with plod marching out of the job in their droves. What do you make of this fearsome threat, Julia?
Why do I automatically assume that the 'honest mistake;, 'miscalculation' or 'unintended offence' was put out by a female, gay or diverse officer? Seriously, care to check?
When you stick the incompetent, useless, woke 'preferential hires' in media relations and such (because they can't do 'the job' and you can't put them anywhere else, in case they fcuk up as per usual) and ... they fcuk that up too.
But don't worry they'll either blame a convenient token white male, systemic racism/sexism in the force, or it'll be 'lessons will be learned' and continue as normal (with the individual concerned 'promoted' out of the area).
"Lancs police are always posting tweets saying someone is missing, only to follow up in a few hours or a day saying, thanks for your help, we've found them. It maybe that Lancs police are under the impression everyone who goes missing, turns up a few hours later..."
Yes, I thinh all forces have to deal with persistent mispers, and maybe that does colour their investigation somewhat...
"Anyway, when one can't find one's own arse with both hands and a map...."
To be fair, nor could the 'professional' dive expert, who is now having his credentials checked. Maybe never to be a consultant again?
"...on the other hand there are perfectly good, honest, hardworking people on the frontline."
Who are massively let down by these sorts of cases, I agree.
"It'll be a bugger if it's someone else, won't it?"
That would have been a twist worthy of a BBC drama show, wouldn't it?
"Why do I automatically assume that the 'honest mistake;, 'miscalculation' or 'unintended offence' was put out by a female, gay or diverse officer?"
My suspicions too.
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