C J 1980
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Not necessarily a drink driving topic but I wanted to get people's view on the policing tactics during Covid19.
I'm not a fan of the boys & girls in blue but I'm starting to think that they are behaving in a draconian manner and are challenging a lot more motorists.
If you are over the limit & behind the wheel - there is a higher chance you will get pulled if you go on to the motorway network. If you stay close to where you live and simply drive from A to B there is less chance of a pull than if you go a long distance. I'm not actually encouraging DD here but I am warning that people chancing their arm if they know they are over the limit are potentially more likely to be caught!?
From a banned driver perspective - I'm actually glad I'm out the equation on this one. I've already been told some bad stories about the police in the last fortnight. Below are two examples of why the police are not doing themselves any favours in the popularity stakes at present.
I know a lady who's daughter is coming to the end of a difficult pregnancy and was heading to her house when daughter started to have a bleed. The daughter already has another child & had rung 999. The lady panicked and clearly as her daughter would be admitted to hospital - she was driving the 30 mile journey to simply care for her grandchild. She was actually pulled on the motorway & turned around by Mr Plod who said if the ambulance have been contacted, daughter has a partner (father of the child and unborn child) who can look after said child, so it is not an essential journey & she was turned around and sent home.
Another example is a guy I know from doing an AA (Alcoholic Annonymous) meeting. He says that during the current climate some members of AA have relapsed - their network of meetings and socializing has been cut off and a lot of these people don't have the luxury of Skype. Therefore, they have clearly fallen into the danger zone of drinking again. One member has relapsed quite badly by all accounts & even though he has been spoken to over the phone there is some concern about him because he lives on his own & is in poor health. The guy I know was travelling to this guy's flat to do a welfare call on his doorstep (as he is a sponsor) but was turned around on the way there by the police. The cop who stopped this bloke was an ****hole to put it bluntly. He said, the bloke was clearly safe - as he had been spoken to over the telephone, it was a lifestyle choice and he was not allowing two alcoholics to have a get together so they could have a piss up! Absolute disgrace.
I think there will be a lower opinion of the police when this is all over. Has anyone else had any experience of the police since the Covid 19 measures started?
CJ
Not necessarily a drink driving topic but I wanted to get people's view on the policing tactics during Covid19.
I'm not a fan of the boys & girls in blue but I'm starting to think that they are behaving in a draconian manner and are challenging a lot more motorists.
If you are over the limit & behind the wheel - there is a higher chance you will get pulled if you go on to the motorway network. If you stay close to where you live and simply drive from A to B there is less chance of a pull than if you go a long distance. I'm not actually encouraging DD here but I am warning that people chancing their arm if they know they are over the limit are potentially more likely to be caught!?
From a banned driver perspective - I'm actually glad I'm out the equation on this one. I've already been told some bad stories about the police in the last fortnight. Below are two examples of why the police are not doing themselves any favours in the popularity stakes at present.
I know a lady who's daughter is coming to the end of a difficult pregnancy and was heading to her house when daughter started to have a bleed. The daughter already has another child & had rung 999. The lady panicked and clearly as her daughter would be admitted to hospital - she was driving the 30 mile journey to simply care for her grandchild. She was actually pulled on the motorway & turned around by Mr Plod who said if the ambulance have been contacted, daughter has a partner (father of the child and unborn child) who can look after said child, so it is not an essential journey & she was turned around and sent home.
Another example is a guy I know from doing an AA (Alcoholic Annonymous) meeting. He says that during the current climate some members of AA have relapsed - their network of meetings and socializing has been cut off and a lot of these people don't have the luxury of Skype. Therefore, they have clearly fallen into the danger zone of drinking again. One member has relapsed quite badly by all accounts & even though he has been spoken to over the phone there is some concern about him because he lives on his own & is in poor health. The guy I know was travelling to this guy's flat to do a welfare call on his doorstep (as he is a sponsor) but was turned around on the way there by the police. The cop who stopped this bloke was an ****hole to put it bluntly. He said, the bloke was clearly safe - as he had been spoken to over the telephone, it was a lifestyle choice and he was not allowing two alcoholics to have a get together so they could have a piss up! Absolute disgrace.
I think there will be a lower opinion of the police when this is all over. Has anyone else had any experience of the police since the Covid 19 measures started?
CJ
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