[Mark Davies]

Originally Posted by MATTBIN

I do hope Mark Davies doesnt find this one.

Too late!

Matt, you'll see me criticising the police as much as I defend them. Where you'll find me fighting the corner is against those rants that are based on little more than prejudice, supposition and rumour and have very little foundation in fact. Some people just don't like the cops and are over-eager to believe every bad word they hear about them - and pass it on with a little more embellishment.

But where criticism is due we just have to take it on the chin. There is much that is wrong with they way we police these days and I've said many times how embarrassed I am to be working in the organisation I am in at the moment. But mostly that is down to idiotic policy imposed on us, rather than failings of individual officers who are generally struggling against all the odds to do their best for you. Again, in those circumstances I'm likely to rise to an individual officer's defence.

However, in this instance there's obviously no excuses. To be honest I wasn't all that surprised that there wasn't an immediate attendance by an officer (though there ought to have been) - we're just stretched so thin everywhere and endlessly tied-up doing pointless paperwork - but it's not good enough all the same. The response from the complaint however is increadibly disappointing. Not exactly decent service recovery.

I hope the letter does its job and the officer who clearly didn't turn up when he should have done is found out - and the inspector who appears to be trying to cover-up for him. I'm sure with Alan's help it well get a result.