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[Andy B]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553012/Mike-Baillon-Policeman-quit-smashing-pensioners-car-baton-admits-430-000-payoff-MASSIVE-money-insists-attack-wasnt-top.html

 

[05omegav6]

So, in context, Andy... if:

You had pulled someone over for some minor misdemeanor,
they accelerate away as you approached the drivers window,
You pursue them for over 15 minutes,
When they eventually stop, they fail to put the handbrake on causing the car to roll back into your car, whilst you're standing next to them
The door is locked and you want to pull the keys to prevent any further danger to the rest of the population and to prevent the driver from making off again.

What would you do?

You are then constructively dismissed from you're job, because someone has posted a video on the internet, filmed incidentally by the equipment in the patrol car. You're two thirds of theway through your time in the Police Force and your dismissal results in the loss of your pension.

What would you do?

Just asking, like

[Andy B]

.....

You are then constructively dismissed from you're job,  .....
What would you do?

Just asking, like

Grow a set! It's called a life in a Blue (other colours are available) suit!

I think the copper was way over the top by smashing the window ..... been watching too much Starskey & Hutch ..... but that's not what I'm particulary  amazed at. It was his crying & whinging afterwards after a bit of piss taking.

[05omegav6]

Incidentally, what happened to his mate standing on the bonnet kicking the windscreen in

[Ever Ready]

How did the video from the patrol car get on the internet? what about DPA etc?

[tunnie]

Seen a lot worse on Road Wars 

[05omegav6]

How did the video from the patrol car get on the internet? what about DPA etc?

Guess once it has been used as evidence and any legal action in relation to the events is concluded, it then becomes un classified and available on demand through FOI channels

Or he was set up by his 'colleagues', in which case he obviously had legitimate grounds for a tribunal... had he not had grounds, he wouldn't have been settled

Seen a lot worse on Road Wars 

You're not wrong... retraining might have been in order for it taking fifteen goes to break the window though

[Ever Ready]

Video date on you tube is August 2010

Incident occurred on Sept 2009

I presume this was shown at the trial and then released due to a foi request

[r1]

how come the driver got a payout if he was found guilty?
the copper was not found guilty of anything
the management needs a good kicking for the way he was treated
but the scarey bit is the cooper says he was suffering from mental illness,so why was he working?

[D]

I am not sure what the issue is really? If that driver was any younger he would have featured on Road Wars or some similar TV show. He drove away when asked to stop by the police. Remember the officer who was shot in his face? How the hell do you know what you are dealing with unless you immobilise the car and secure the driver. The driver in this case was clearly behaving like an idiot and resisting.

Then there is clearly a case of the officer having to resign due to pressure at work from idiotic colleagues So why should he have to grow a pair and take a financial hit. I am pretty certain most of us here wouldnt resign from a job they love due to the conduct of various colleagues and keep quiet about it.

[chrisgixer]

Does anybody learn? Stop reading the oppsing Daily oppsing Fail. FOS!

Exactly the sort of stor... Oh never mind!

[Andy B]

Does anybody learn? Stop reading the oppsing Daily oppsing Fail. FOS!

Exactly the sort of stor... Oh never mind!

I'm sure I could find it in the Times or Telegraph if you like. 

It's just the kind of Plod attitude that is fantastic for Plod, Joe Public relations. When you want/need a copper for petty theft or some barsteward kicking your door mirrors off, a crime number is normally the best you'll get ........ only when you go to the local shop because they don't/won't answer the bloody phone.

[05omegav6]

Had that driver stopped when requested, none of this would have happened... think of the public cash and police time that would have been saved, meaning that some one who needed an immediate response to a situation might have received more than a crime number... the self fulfillment of these situations always seems to pan out with blinkered hindsight and selective reporting

[Andy B]

Had that driver stopped when requested, none of this would have happened...  .....

Agreed, but the response of the copper was way OTT .....

[chrisgixer]

Kind of agree, the second copper on scene wasn't expecting copper 1 to start swinging his stick about. Nearly took his head off, twice

Although, driver failed to stop. It was blatantly obvious what was required of him. The idiot.
I must say its a good job this isn't the USA, I would probably have shot some daft bint in the head on the way home tonight. Looked directly at me, sternly, crept forward still looking directly at me,as if to time the collision perfectly, then still looking at me, pulled out just at the right time and stopped in front of me.
Stopped, no problem, as she telegraphed it better than she can drive. But really, what is wrong with people? Tbh I think a response similar to that coppers would have perfectly reasonable.