Something like this, maybe?
During a week-long trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the jury were told how De Meulemeester was a student officer and classed as a basic police driver.
Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford, KC, told the court that as such she was required to drive in accordance with the Highway Code and are not authorised to use police exemptions such as contravening keep left signs and speeding.
Another triumph for the policy of hiring graduates, I see, Reader...
Belgian-born De Meulemeester, who achieved her ambition of joining the police in July 2019 after graduating from De Montfort University at Leicester, admitted in court that she had been speeding and driving carelessly.
Following her move to the UK, De Meulemester studied for a degree in criminal investigation and policing before working as a call handler.
So, how did someone so eminently qualified wind up mowing down a teenager?
Asked by her KC David Temkin why she had been travelling that fast she replied, 'I wasn't aware that was how fast I was going.
'I was just trying to get to the incident. I wasn't paying attention to how fast I was going.'
*sighs*
7 comments:
No excuses for her. She knew she wasn’t qualified to drive at speed because she pulled over to let another police car overtake her and then rejoined the convoy at speed after he had passed her.
Jaded
Paper qualifications aside, we need look no further than WC Jaded's own contributions to the blog, for proof that very few plod are adequately 'educatid'. And I have yet to hear of one who didn't turn out to be a complete ass in all three senses of the word.
Has there been a campaign to recruit EU immigrants as Police Officers? There are a couple round here from the former soviet states who act like they are still there. Maybe its because they speak the same language as the imported criminals.
I wonder how the Daily Mail defines “poster girl”. Too many doughnuts by the look of it.
Probably chasing Melvin's lawnmower.
Anon at 09:37
I no longer have need for a mower, Jaded. Until his team have retrieved the missing mower, our chief constable, Johnnie, continues to visit each weekend and maintains the lawns with nothing more than a spontaneous passion for grazing and his new, NHS dentures.
"No excuses for her."
Indeed. And none for those who employed her, either.
"Has there been a campaign to recruit EU immigrants as Police Officers? "
Well, I AM using a lot more consonants in these blogposts, I've noticed...
"I wonder how the Daily Mail defines “poster girl”. Too many doughnuts by the look of it."
😁
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