Heam44
Well-known member
In light of today’s events and the current (likely short lived) sympathy of the general public towards the police, if I could educate the public on one point regarding policing it would be this.
(It’s something I think most people would probably be aware of but fail to consider or remember at the appropriate time).
If you ever see a copper (or two / three) arresting someone and you think they are being heavy handed based on the circumstances. Even if you have witnessed the whole event, even if the suspect is only being arrested for the theft of a 10p mix up, and even if you know the person being arrested, it may even be someone you know well or a family member etc. Please bare in mind that you don’t know what information is being relayed through the coppers earpiece, the ‘sound fella’ you know, who has ‘hardly done anything wrong’ may have done things previously to dictate the way he is being ‘managed’.
For example the coppers may be being informed about how he there is intelligence to suggest he is in possession of firearms etc, or that the last time he was arrested it became apparent that he had a knife concealed about him, or that he has previously attacked officers when being arrested maybe even with a knife or needle etc, maybe he has previously bitten or spat at officers and he has hepatitis etc etc.
By all means get your phones out to record the incident, because the bobbys will be recording it also but you may have a much better angle and on the odd occasion that the cops have forgot to turn on their cameras they may just thank you for recording it.
But please think twice before trying to help your mate or tell the cops what they are doing wrong because when they cops are trying to communicate with the person they are arresting, each other and the ‘radio operator’, one extra person can make things difficult. And unless the person being arrested has spent every second of his/her life with you, there is a chance they might have done stuff that you don’t know about.
(It’s something I think most people would probably be aware of but fail to consider or remember at the appropriate time).
If you ever see a copper (or two / three) arresting someone and you think they are being heavy handed based on the circumstances. Even if you have witnessed the whole event, even if the suspect is only being arrested for the theft of a 10p mix up, and even if you know the person being arrested, it may even be someone you know well or a family member etc. Please bare in mind that you don’t know what information is being relayed through the coppers earpiece, the ‘sound fella’ you know, who has ‘hardly done anything wrong’ may have done things previously to dictate the way he is being ‘managed’.
For example the coppers may be being informed about how he there is intelligence to suggest he is in possession of firearms etc, or that the last time he was arrested it became apparent that he had a knife concealed about him, or that he has previously attacked officers when being arrested maybe even with a knife or needle etc, maybe he has previously bitten or spat at officers and he has hepatitis etc etc.
By all means get your phones out to record the incident, because the bobbys will be recording it also but you may have a much better angle and on the odd occasion that the cops have forgot to turn on their cameras they may just thank you for recording it.
But please think twice before trying to help your mate or tell the cops what they are doing wrong because when they cops are trying to communicate with the person they are arresting, each other and the ‘radio operator’, one extra person can make things difficult. And unless the person being arrested has spent every second of his/her life with you, there is a chance they might have done stuff that you don’t know about.
