Report or not? Police driver overtook into oncoming traffic and squeezed me

[sabian92]

That's a very much appreciated move by us, as we worry about what the proverbial 'cyclist with headphones' might do as we pass them with sirens. If you actually stop, we know you know we are there.

However, it's not applicable in Sabians case as the car wasn't on a 'lights and sirens' run, it was just driving normally.

Indeed it was, so the fact it was a police car makes it sort of better. Easier to ID and complain!

I got a call back this afternoon and the guy said he'd spoken to her, listened to her side of the story (which he didn't explain but not that bothered really) and explained to her my problems. She agreed to "modify her driving style" and it's been noted on her employee record with their HR dept. He said because there were no independent witnesses they couldn't really do a lot else but I'm didn't expect them to anyway.

Can't really ask for more than that - he said I did the right thing by reporting, and that he understood me when I said it's an easy way to have a horrible and quite painful accident.

Proof not all Police Officers are bent, twisted morons hellbent on destroying the moral code of society

 

[Lance Jack]

At the end of the day, police officers are us. They are just normal people who watch football, drink in a pub, moan about the weather, get tired and even ride cycles! We expect them to have a higher standard but it's like any job, good and bad, fit and fat, black and white, various religions. What I am trying to say is they are human, they are prone, like us, to make a mistake now and again, it's how we learn from our mistakes that make us human.

 

[jarlrmai]

Good outcome, I got a similar response when passed closely by an non emergency Ambulance (no need there was a free lane to the right).

 

[Boris Bajic]

My experience of the police is very different to yours.

That much is clear from the slightly vitriolic tone of your condemnation of the Police. I do wonder, however, whether one or two disappointing experiences can justify the broad and thorough damning of the police that you offer.

Your invective is so strong and so thorough and so out of keeping with what most people have experienced over many contacts over many decades that it rather invites further questioning.

I might have had a couple of sandwiches pecked at by pigeons, but that wouldn't justify my saying that all birds are psychotic, snack-stealing filth. Many are, of course. But it is not institutional.

You say (among other things): "I am sure some coppers as individuals are ok ie those on here, but as an orgnisation they are as bent, incompetent and corrupt as any other, worse in fact."

Your wording is slightly odd, as it clears police officers who are CC members of any wrongdoing (conveniently - although I'm not sure how you differentiate), whilst (by implication) damning the majority of those who do not post here and accusing the wider body employing them as corrupt and incompetent. Not just corrupt, but moreso than any other organisation.

It can be galling to be treated unpleasantly by an official, but anyone with any experience of the UK Police would find a degree of wilful myopia or just plain bile and bias in your words.

Unless... You are spot on in your analysis of the Police and everyone I've ever spoken to on the topic is living is some mad, drug-induced dreamland Utopia. Which may be the case.

 

[Markymark]

I have been to many parts of the world and I would not swap our police for any others I have even seen.

 

[Cubist]

I object to being singled out by Crankers because I post on this forum. I want to be thought of as as bent and corrupt as the rest of them.

 

[jonny jeez]

My experience of the police is very different to yours.

I wonder what their experience of you was Crankers?

What I mean is, I treat the Old Bill like I treat London road users, I provide respect and communication until its clear that it is undeserved. In all but one interaction I have ever had with the police I was left thinking that they were, like me, just people trying to do a job.

Perhaps, subconsciously or even more overtly you enter the experience with a desire to rattle their cage (as you mention in your other post). You may have very good reason for this, I don't know you well enough but I do suspect it colours your interaction.

On a side note, I'm getting pulled over, on average, once a month right now....so I probably have fairly good reason to be frustrated. But to add a little yin to that Yang, My father was in the job for near on 30 years and I came within a truncheon strap of joining up myself back in the day..

 

[Crankarm]

That much is clear from the slightly vitriolic tone of your condemnation of the Police. I do wonder, however, whether one or two disappointing experiences can justify the broad and thorough damning of the police that you offer.

Your invective is so strong and so thorough and so out of keeping with what most people have experienced over many contacts over many decades that it rather invites further questioning.

I might have had a couple of sandwiches pecked at by pigeons, but that wouldn't justify my saying that all birds are psychotic, snack-stealing filth. Many are, of course. But it is not institutional.

You say (among other things): "I am sure some coppers as individuals are ok ie those on here, but as an orgnisation they are as bent, incompetent and corrupt as any other, worse in fact."

Your wording is slightly odd, as it clears police officers who are CC members of any wrongdoing (conveniently - although I'm not sure how you differentiate), whilst (by implication) damning the majority of those who do not post here and accusing the wider body employing them as corrupt and incompetent. Not just corrupt, but moreso than any other organisation.

It can be galling to be treated unpleasantly by an official, but anyone with any experience of the UK Police would find a degree of wilful myopia or just plain bile and bias in your words.

Unless... You are spot on in your analysis of the Police and everyone I've ever spoken to on the topic is living is some mad, drug-induced dreamland Utopia. Which may be the case.

I have my reasons which are a little more than a "bad experience". They shall however remain private. How about we consider all the other scandals that have involved the police that are in the public domain? I am sure we could draw up a long ugly list of their finest moments. In numerous high profile cases they have found to have lied, fabricated or ignored vital evidence whether through incompetence or deliberately. They have caused major miscarriages of justice. Start holding them to account and they don't like it. I just don't subscribe to the view that the police are whiter than white. They are not. Sorry.

 

[Alan Frame]

We call it 'gay' or 'queer' these days...

That wasn't very p.c. was it, P.C ?

 

[Cubist]

I've spent the last 25 years carefully constructing a persona and patterns of behaviour that will make people think I don't care, that I am disrespectful and ignorant, that I am prepared to risk imprisonment to cover up the failings and criminal actions of my colleagues, that I am bigotted and untrustworthy, and a corrupt liar, and Crankers comes on here and with one sweeping misinformed posting blows all that away by telling everyone how nice I am. Well, I'm not having it. I'm going to make sure all of you are stopped and cavity searched every time you ride out in public. And keep posting your close pass videos, we watch them to have f@cking good laugh at your expense while we calculate our gold plated pensions.

 

[Leodis]

Its not like the Bill is it

 

[Schmilliemoo]

Lol cubist can I transfer to your force? Sounds lovely