Off duty PC

[Ihavenojob]

An off duty PC may be referred to the IOPC for failing to intervene quick enough to an assault on a train. Bonkers or what?

Women's group boss says she was bitten in racist Tube attack

Selma Taha, the director of Southall Black Sisters, says she had her hair ripped out and was bitten.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Police are never off duty

 

[johnny2007]

I wonder what really happened...

 

[Bod ...]

As Carmen says. Police are never off duty. He had a responsibility that he should have acted on sooner, if what I read is true.

 

[Dork Lard]

I wonder what really happened...

The truth will out eventually, but won't necessarily be as critically reported.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

As Carmen says. Police are never off duty. He had a responsibility that he should have acted on sooner, if what I read is true.

If I read it right, one woman attacked another who was with two friends, so three of them. Why did the two friends, three of them not manage to cope?

 

[crystal ball]

Police are never off duty

Might be if on sick leave, say recovering from an operation

 

[Ihavenojob]

Police are never off duty.

Why say he was off duty then?

 

[Bod ...]

Why say he was off duty then?

Only he knows. Regardless he has a duty

 

[Bod ...]

If I read it right, one woman attacked another who was with two friends, so three of them. Why did the two friends, three of them not manage to cope?

Reasonable question but copper should have been a copper

 

[Dork Lard]

Reasonable question but copper should have been a copper

You seem to have formed an opinion on the evidence presented to you by the BBC, despite the article containing several oxymorons.

Please tell us at what point in the timeline should the copper have first intervened?

 

[fillyboy]

Why say he was off duty then?

Perhaps there's subtleties in being off duty, like the difference in Micky Flanagans 'going out', and 'going out out'.

 

[Bod ...]

You seem to have formed an opinion on the evidence presented to you by the BBC, despite the article containing several oxymorons.

Please tell us at what point in the timeline should the copper have first intervened?

As Carmen says. Police are never off duty. He had a responsibility that he should have acted on sooner, if what I read is true.

I think I covered that base.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

You seem to have formed an opinion on the evidence presented to you by the BBC, despite the article containing several oxymorons.

Please tell us at what point in the timeline should the copper have first intervened?

As soon as it was obvious an incident was developing, or at the earliest opportunity if it was unsafe at that point to intervene

 

[Dork Lard]

I think I covered that base.

I don't think that you did. You are trying to make sense of an event & your only knowledge of that event is presented to you by a BBC journalist. Whatever it is that is churning around inside your head was put there by a BBC journalist.

You are trying to make sense of something that only exists because someone put it inside your head.

"if what I read is true" is not enough for a disclaimer when you have already said "He had a responsibility that he should have acted on sooner". You have absolutely no idea of exactly what happened on that tube train because you only have what the BBC article tells you.

If the BBC told you to jump, would you jump?