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Simply trying to show the human side of our fantastic Police Officers & raise a bit of money for good causes whilst we're at it! RT's are not an endorsement.

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UK Cop Humour

5,056,689 просмотров • 1 год назад

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𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Panorama spent seven months undercover in the Met. We've cut all of that down to 59 seconds: the journalist admitting he saw countless police officers doing an excellent job in the toughest of circumstances. Because that’s the reality. Policing is about extraordinary individuals doing incredible work in impossible situations. The police are the public and the public are the police. They’re not higher beings. They’re people from every walk of life who put in an application for a job. Yes, it’s a job with huge responsibility, but it’s still drawn from the same pool of society as every other workforce. And that means you’ll see the good, the bad, and the ugly reflected within it. The best vetting in the world won’t tell you what someone might say when they’re in a pub with a journalist asking leading questions. Not that that excuses behaviour shown in the programme for one second. What was said was shameful and beneath the standards of any decent human being, let alone a police officer. But every time something like that is aired, it makes the job so much harder for everyone else who still has to walk out the door and put on the uniform the next day. And of course, what you’ll never see is a journalist spending seven months undercover just to show you the good. You won’t see them filming officers comforting victims of domestic violence, or taking a neglected child to McDonald’s because they haven’t eaten in days, or holding the hand of someone dying in a road traffic collision, or knocking on a door at 3am to tell a wife and children that daddy isn’t coming home. You won’t see them filming a van full of officers, young and old, big and small, driving at midnight into the middle of a pub fight, knowing full well they could be hurt but going anyway so that others don’t. That’s the reality of policing. And it’s worth remembering, whatever the headlines, that the vast majority are out there trying to do good in a world that doesn’t often want to see it. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. [🎥 Credit: BBC]

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91,036 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

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𝗢𝗻𝗲-𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – 𝟮𝟮 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗜𝘁 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 No shift is ever routine. No job even comes close. Policing carries a weight others can’t see – until they’re the ones staring down a blade or firebomb. On 31 January, 28-year-old Alexander Dighton turned up at Talbot Green Police Station, armed to the teeth. Molotov cocktail. Hatchet. Knife. Wooden pole. He wore body armour and came with intent. He tried to torch a police van. Smashed station windows. Stabbed a detective in the leg – narrowly missing his femoral artery. He punched another officer unconscious. A 50,000-volt Taser was fired – he shrugged it off and kept going. Today, he was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 22 years, after pleading guilty to attempted murder, GBH with intent, attempted arson, and several other offences. The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed the attack had a terrorist connection, rooted in extremist anti-government views. Dighton had previously been referred to the Prevent programme. Chief Superintendent Stephen Jones praised the bravery and professionalism of officers who faced him down. “This could’ve been so much worse,” he said – and he’s right. It’s easy for the armchair critics to sneer. But this is the job. This is the risk. And every officer knows they could face it next. Watch the footage. This is real policing. Real courage. Real danger. Stay safe. Look out for each other. [Video: South Wales Police] #SouthWalesPolice #TalbotGreen #PoliceBravery #PoliceAttack #BodycamFootage #UKPolicing #UKCH #StaySafe

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