PCSO breaks back..

[Jezston]

Cycling is now clearly too dangerous for PSOs so I'd imagine the Police will be getting rid of their entire fleet of police bicycles very soon.

 

[hackbike 666]

Cycling is now clearly too dangerous for PSOs so I'd imagine the Police will be getting rid of their entire fleet of police bicycles very soon.

Settle down.

 

[Crankarm]

Originally Posted by hackbike 666
Sorry about that I didn't read the report.

I have lost count of the number of cyclists I have seen riding on pavements, going through red lights and going down one way streets the wrong way in Manchester city centre - but Rick D'alaglio seems to think that it is the other road users that don't adhere to the rules of the road! Is it safe to ride on pavements and jump lights? I think not Mandi , Radcliffe

There's your public.

Absolutely. In fact, it worries me how prevalent attitudes like this are with drivers. I speak to my friends and relatives, and they use similar arguments, even though they are intelligent people and are not unfeeling psychopaths.

Clearly, it takes a moron like Mandi to actually publish this thought on a story about a police worker being seriously injured on a cycle.

And I found the repost to Mandi's ranting to be somewhat in bad taste, maybe because I might expect a comment like that could be for real.

Perhaps counting is this person's problem? It must be hard to keep track of counting when you have two thumbs and four fingers on each hand and you walk on all fours. If she can count using all her thumbs, fingers and toes then she's one intelligent baboon. She probably also needs a shave .

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Frustrating that when it's a PCSO, an appeal is put out, when it's not then it's a "bloody cyclist who probably put themself in harms way anyway and should take a test/pay 'road tax'/get out of the way"

 

[joebingo]

It's not that much of a surprise though, is it ST? From the outside looking in, I've always had a view that the Police Force(s) can be very cliquey - justice seems to be served far quicker and with much more affect when the victim of the crime works for the police. If only the same level of enthusiasm was upheld in all cases.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

It's not that much of a surprise though, is it ST?

Not for me, having been dragged through a massive waste of taxpayers money on a 6-session court hearing regarding trespass...all because I had upset some well-to-do folk and friends of magistrates and chief constables.

THAT SAID......

I'm glad they are taking it seriously...it SHOULDN'T take a PCSO to be injured for the incident to be treat with the respect it deserves but......

 

[Tynan]

perfectly normal to pursue a crime against an on duty police officer with additional vigour though, they're on duty and putting themselves out there to out benefit, if they're not treated wtih due respect, it all starts going wrong a bit quickly

I think a broken back for a cyclist due to a car would get serious attention from the cops

 

[CopperBrompton]

Cycling is now clearly too dangerous for PSOs so I'd imagine the Police will be getting rid of their entire fleet of police bicycles very soon.

Much as I hope they catch the offender, the sensationalist headline doesn't help: two cracked vertabrae may technically amount to a 'broken back', but it gives a highly misleading impression.

 

[Tinuts]

Went to report the "learn em" comments as I thought it inappropriate. Yet again though, another annoying website that asks you to register AFTER you've tried to lodge your concerns.

Poor woman, hope she heals up and the the Police service up there realise now that this is the way it is. The CPS will screw them over for any attempt to prosecute.

Yes, I found the same!

 

[snorri]

Went to report the "learn em" comments as I thought it inappropriate.

I hadn't read that as being offensive, perhaps it's a regional thing.

 

[Keith Oates]

I hope the woman gets over the injury quickly and fully but also that the car driver is found and prosecuted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!