What would you have done?

[Slick]

Like this: Rickshaws used by police in chase.

Haha exactly like that.

 

[classic33]

Rugby tackled a fella doing his best to get away from two BTP officers at Sheffield station a few years ago. Takinvhim and one of the officers to the the ground. Cuffs on one wrist and didn't appear to want to hang around for the other to be applied.

Sat on his legs whilst they got both on. Phonecall the following day enquiring what station I was based at. I'd to explain I was just on my way home, not in the police force and I'd been trying to help, nothing more.

Told that he and his friend inside the station had robbed a jewellers in the City Centre. Not wanting to be caught made sense.

 

[classic33]

Wonder how the police would deal with stalkers, if they didn't get there first?

 

[Mugshot]

[QUOTE 5297150, member: 45"]Me? I'm just joining in with the tall tales.[/QUOTE]
But I did get an Easter egg

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5297150, member: 45"]Me? I'm just joining in with the tall tales.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for admitting to being the stalker though.

 

[Mugshot]

Thanks for admitting to being the stalker though.

Voice of the expert here/there.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5297164, member: 45"]That's a little rich, given your Internet behaviours, and tendency to follow new female forum members.[/QUOTE]
You can back that statement up.

 

[nickyboy]

Thanks for admitting to being the stalker though.

[QUOTE 5297164, member: 45"]That's a little rich, given your Internet behaviours, and tendency to follow new female forum members.[/QUOTE]

"There may be trouble ahead....."

 

[Katherine]

Mod note.
Please leave the personal attacks out. Thank you

 

[jefmcg]

After a quick Google, my advice would be to stay well clear of police pursuits in your area.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...hased_by_police_crashes_into_Accrington_home/

https://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/woman-47-dies-boxing-day-14084003

 

[nickyboy]

After a quick Google, my advice would be to stay well clear of police pursuits in your area.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...hased_by_police_crashes_into_Accrington_home/

https://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/woman-47-dies-boxing-day-14084003

I've never been in the situation of having to decide whether to apprehend someone. Thinking about it, I'd probably do it if I thought I could get the better, physically, of the person I was apprehending

So teenagers, women, folk older than me....I think I'd have a go. Although you never know how you're going to react until it actually happens.

 

[pawl]

Trouble is if you intervene and injure the guy you are liable to end up also being questioned about using in appropriate force.

Several reports in the media of people protecting them selves against violent intruders to there property being held for a considerable period of time by the plod for doing just that.
Quick enough to ask for help with investigations are going no were.

 

[Mugshot]

So teenagers, women, folk older than me....I think I'd have a go. Although you never know how you're going to react until it actually happens.

I used to be a manager for a well known DIY chain. One day I was approached by a couple of staff who told me that they thought somebody was on the rob. So, after a bit of peeping round corners to see who it was they were talking about I told them I'd wait at the front of the store and that they should keep an eye on him and if they were absolutely 100% certain they should give me a nod and I'd stop the guy outside the shop.
Unfortunately they saw the fella popping some bits in a bag before he headed straight for the door, so I, as I'd promised, was going to have to approach him and ask him to accompany me back into the shop. What was concerning me was that the bloke was colossal, he was like Hagrid without the beard.
Anyway, shaking in my shoes, I stopped Hodor (my brave staff were huddled around the entrance door while I stood alone in the middle of the car park, thanks guys) and thankfully he came very peacefully back into the store and to the managers office with me. I was asking him the usual things, name etc, when he said;

"Are you going to tell my mum?" A little taken aback I asked;
"How old are you?"
"14" he replied.
Had it kicked off I would forever have been known as the store manager that beat up a 14 year old, or more likely, the store manager that was beaten up by a 14 year old.

There's plenty of teenagers I wouldn't want to be tangling with.

 

[Pale Rider]

I'd have gleefully given pursuit while humming the Chips theme turne to myself.

When I were a young copper my sergeant was involved in a foot chase and commandeered a bus, comp,at a with passengers, for the pursuit.

I once saw a policeman almost run up the steps of Durham Crown Court - I suspect he was due to give evidence and was late.

To tease him a little, I said: "Steady on, officer, nothing's that urgent."

To which he replied: "As my first sergeant told me, never run anywhere, you might panic the public."

He was only half-joking, and the remark does give an insight into the way coppers think, which is unlike the rest of us.

 

[Fnaar]

There must be a joke in there somewhere, but I can't quite get my head round it.

Running around like a headless chicken