Police 999 text message

[tim west]

If you want the police to turn up in their droves in record time, ring up a TV news crew and ask them to attend with their cameras.
Voila masses of cops all in their nice new shiny uniforms and highly polished shoes

 

[Thermo]

do you want some salt and vinegar to go on the chip on your shoulder?

 

[tim west]

Chip sir? Police taking a Battering again? Cod knows they deserve it sometimes

 

[Thermo]

sorry tim you replied just before me, i was refering to the previous poster

 

[tim west]

sorry tim you replied just before me, i was refering to the previous poster

Its ok i'm just having my usual fun, no offence either way I hope?

 

[DP]

So the coppers were run off their feet at 0500 when sparrow is asleep and yet to fart.

 

[doitall]

What they should have done is dialed 999 and left the phone off the hook

 

[gremlin16]

And then get done for wasting police time, even when your reduced to a bleeding corpse

 

[doitall]

And then get done for wasting police time, even when your reduced to a bleeding corpse

No, you get the Mrs to play possum on the floor by the door, and kneel over her all concerned and in a state of shock

Someone was trying to break in officer and she keeled over when I was on the phone, cough, cough.

 

[ninebob]

Good God. Had it not been for the link to a BBC news story I would have utterly failed to believe this. TEXT MESSAGE response to a 999 call?

I ackkk-I er - NO, I can't even begin to put into words how utterly ridiculous that is.

WHAT THE F**K exactly do the police do now? Except for changing the film in speed cameras?

We had a similar experience a couple of months ago (I'm a lodger above a Brighton pub). Some trouble happened to kick off and the landlord radioed SASSCO (the private security firm we pay XXX per week); they were in the pub within 2 minutes. When it became apparent that the only sensible course of action was to have this guy arrested, the police were called - guess what? too busy - if your own security are dealing with it then we don't want to know. End result ****** walks off to cause trouble in as many other pubs as he wants (except those who use SASSCO - who, to their credit do enforce a blanket ban).

It really angers me.

Reminds me of this:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article501091.ece

 

[gremlin16]

Several Norfolk policemen have appeared in court in recent months. Judges have heard how a sergeant harassed and assaulted a woman, a constable put a woman in fear of violence and another constable committed fraud.

I dont find that hard to belive

 

[imamartian]

"but shortly afterwards they were awoken by a text message. "

what i don't get is.... if they were concerned enough to dial 999, then why (and how) did they go back to sleep?