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| Originally Posted by onthetrain Frankly you should know better than to sterotype a force based on one example of poor service. Ask some of your colleagues who have transferred down about the pressures of working here.
On some of our BCU's a single PC can be covering an area of 150 square miles....You won't see much of that in Liverpool street :-)
There is however no excuse for crap service |
I am not stereotyping a force based on one example. Dorset Police has let someone down. You are bound to get defensive as it's your force, and to be honest, the layabout has let YOU down as well, as you have to defend Dorset police's good reputation now.
And on another note: 1 pc covering 150 sq miles? wow. On one shift last week I was the only response driver covering a patch that extends (in my force's equivalent of BCU) all the way to Peterborough on nights (Harlow on days and out to Slough etc heading west. This massive area was covered by me, my partner and one other. In that shift we attended a one under, 2 calls for kids on the tracks in areas far apart, umpteen fights and assisted the met with a couple of calls as well. We all have it bad etc, as we have all stated ad nauseam on this board, but lazy arses (and god knows the BTP is chock full of them) make us all look bad. One bad apple etc.
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