A Police Officer in the UK?

[SupraAyf]

A Police Officer in the UK

 

Question:

How do you tell the difference between a British Police Officer, an Australian Police Officer and an American Police Officer?

 

Answer:

First - Lets pose the following question:

 

You're on duty by yourself walking on a deserted street late at night.

Suddenly, an armed man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife,

and lunges at you.You are carrying a Glock .40, and you are an expert shot, however you have only

a split second to react before he reaches you. What do you do?

 

BRITISH POLICE OFFICER:

Firstly the officer must consider the man's Human Rights.

1) Does the man look poor or oppressed?

2) Is he newly arrived in this country and does not yet understand the law?

3) Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?

4) Am I dressed provocatively?

5) Could I run away?

6) Could I possibly swing my gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand?

7) Should I try and negotiate with him to discuss his wrong doings?

8) Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it?

9) Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society?

10) Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?

11) If I were to grab his knees and hold on, would he still want to stab and kill me?

12) If I raise my gun and he turns and runs away, do I get blamed if he falls over, knocks his head and kills himself? .

13) If I shoot and wound him, and lose the subsequent court case, does he have the opportunity to sue me, cost me my job,

my credibility and the loss of my family home?

 

AUSTRALIAN POLICE OFFICER:

BANG!

 

AMERICAN POLICE OFFICER:

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! 'click'....

(Sergeant arrives at scene later and remarks: 'Nice grouping!)

[ray007]

lol.... and we wonder why

[hogmaw]

A British police officer would shoot him too but yes our police force is more civilised than the others if that's the point you're trying to raise.

[Attero]

There needs to be a perfect balance.

 

The UK police force is terrible in handling things as there are too many precautions to consider. Sometimes you have to work out E=Mc2 in order to come to a conclusion!

Foreign police forces however, have too much power and can cause more harm to the less harmful suspects than is necessary.

[Mike_Mac]

A Police Officer in the UK

 

You're on duty by yourself walking on a deserted street late at night.

Suddenly, an armed man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife,

and lunges at you.You are carrying a Glock .40, and you are an expert shot, however you have only

a split second to react before he reaches you. What do you do?

 

BRITISH POLICE OFFICER:

Firstly the officer must consider the right to self preservation and whether he feels his life is in danger...

1) BANG!

2) Sent on leave during investigation to establish if shooting was justified.

3) Media circus starts, suggesting crazy man was really a nice guy, family man and was an ardent collector of flowers etc, and suggests police are on a cover up.

4) Police comment can legally only be 'no comment on ongoing cases'.

5) Media circus cites lack of response from police as further example of cover up and broadcasts interview with random bystander who reckons 'yeah they didn't ought to have shot 'im, like, bruv, innit... am I on the telly? Cool!'.

6) Long after public outcry dies down officer returns to work after the investigation to find out that the result is irrelevant since he's long since been convicted in the eyes of at least some members of the public.

 

 

EFA

 

PS - I know about the De-Menezes (spelling?) shooting and, possibly, the latest one on Tottenham having issues raised about them, but what annoys me is that media speculation quickly starts to make stuff up based on random opinion rather than wait for a proper finding.