About That………..
November 27, 2007 by inspectorgadget
I would like to say sorry and resign.
Clearly, my last post, 62 French Girls Can’t Be Wrong, has caused major rioting and widespread disorder Paris.
Our local yobs would never do this. It would mean leaving the plasma telly for too long. Besides, you can’t riot when you are on the X Box 360.
If this was taking place in Ruralshire, I would separate the offenders, arrest them all individually for a Section 5 POA offence, and therefore achieve all of our ‘detected crime’ targets for the next decade - thus allowing me to be reinstated.
Or we could create arrests by dealing with those who inappropriately name teddy bears…..
“thus allowing me to be reinstated”…
I haven’t been reading this blog all that long so forgive me if I’ve missed something - why would you be reinstated? Did you get suspended or something? Or am I just being stupid?
Hum so not paying attention to the news these days, I think I kind of glaze over because it is usually so inaccurate. Anyhoo having said that seems a bit of an overreaction by everyone blaming the police when apparent witnesses say the car wasn’t chasing them and the two lads crashed into the car, but already there’s the usual calls for the officers to be convicted. Proper nasty rioting tho, firearms used against the police, loads injured
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7114175.stm
But oh yeah of course its your fault gadget. You are a symbol of authority after all and your post cannot be discounted in fuelling the french discontent. This is why they spend so much time in diversity training you.
Ooops. Entente cordiale or something I think they call it. And to think we now got a tunnel.
We could face a call for mutual aid when the euro force gets off the ground because
no-one was allowed to get a vote to say ‘non’.
Ah, the followers of the Religion of Peace(TM) continuing to ‘do their bit’ to bring the French parts of the Dar al-Harb under the Dar al-Islam.
Needless to say, al-Beeb’s reports failed to mention this teensy little piece of information.
“Arrest them all individually for section 5″? In Blandmore we are far more sophisticated. We would round them all up, arrest them en masse for Riot or Violent Disorder. However when the early turn received the handover the whole thing would be downgraded and 25 tickets given out.
I can’t remember the last time someone I arrested for Affray or even s.4 when it didn’t turn into a s.5 by the morning…
Steven - Gadget said in his opening line “I would like to say sorry and resign” (made me panic before I read the rest of the post!) that’s why he said “thus allowing me to be reinstated” (I think)
This government has long given up governing and their only aim is to cling on to power through lies and propaganda. This filters through every thing and everyone they are the paymasters for including the police, but remember they have created thousands of non jobs aswell. The diversity industry springs to mind and where I live we have a five-a-day vegetable coordinator, who should be sacked beacuse I have been on nights and can’t be arsed to boil things so I am going to the chippy.
Anyway just like our paymasters we spin,lie and cheat to meet targets to show how safe the world is. Then the good folks of Britain walk down the street and see it was all a load of b*******
Allons, enfants de la patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrive,
Aux armes, citoyens!
Formez vos battaillons!
Merde, c’est les gendarmes avec leur billets de £80……..
Mr Man’s Wife - absolutely correct.
Thanks for the clarification Mr Man’s Wife, I thought I’d missed something
Anyone know of a friendly French Police blog?
It’d be interesting to read their thoughts - and show our support.
Does anyone know of an Irish (republic) police blog? Poor old Belfast Peeler in Northern Ireland seems to have been silenced. I can’t seem to find any Garda Siochana with blogging tendencies.
I also posted about Paris so perhaps I could take some of the blame too - however, what with me being a junior rank that would probably mean ALL the blame.
Whom Will France Mourn? A Tale of an Accident and a Murder
… The two youths, who were not wearing compulsory crash helmets, died on the spot. A few hours later, Anne-Lorraine (23), a young journalist, was stabbed to death on a suburban train near Creil, whilst resisting a man who was trying to rape her. The man had already been convicted for violent sexual assault in 1996. … the young woman’s relatives and friends … have not gone on a rampage. They have not torched train carriages nor have they arsoned train stations. The French authorities do not fear they will turn to violence in the coming nights, either. …
“Anyone know of a friendly French Police blog?”
Area search no trace
Yes:
http://www.police-info.com/pn/
It’s a French Police forum, make sure you register otherwise you can’t see anything.
I’m sure they would appreciate your support.
Frenchman - thank you
I went on a trip a few years back with some police officers and met the local french cops, who were very friendly and gave us a tour of their police station where we swapped patches and little uniform parts.
I lost all their email addresses… but my respect for the French Police never stopped.
All I need to do now is learn French!
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Via Expatica, Associated Press reports that Rioters ‘were out to kill us’, says wounded French officer
28 November 2007
PARIS - “It felt like they were out to kill us. We knew there were weapons in the suburbs, but never turned against us like that,” one of the police officers shot during youth riots near Paris told AFP Wednesday.
Sent to the suburb of Villiers le Bel to quell an outbreak of violence that followed the death of two teens in a crash with police, Francois, who asked not to be fully identified, found himself under siege.
“We were attacked from all sides” by youths armed with hunting rifles
“The kids were shooting at us at close range, loading and reloading their weapons. I’ve never seen anything like it. It was like in a movie. They were picking us off from 10 or 15 metres away.” .” [emphasis added, BBC reported air-guns]
“I was hit in the hand with what I thought was a slingshot. I didn’t realise right away that it was buckshot, until I saw the hole in my trousers. I tried to protect my younger colleagues, then I fell to the ground.”
Police unions say the scale and intensity of the violence unleashed since Sunday is worse than the 2005 riots, also sparked by the deaths of two youths.
A line was crossed, they say, when suburb gangs turned guns on the police, 120 of whom were injured, several by gunwound. The hunting rifles used by the gangs are dangerous anywhere within a 300-metre (yard) range.
Bruno Beschizza of the Synergie-Officiers police union said he had told Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie of the fear sparked among the police rank and file by the recent flare-up.
“We told her that our colleagues, out in the field, were afraid. How would you not be when a guy pulls a gun out of his sleeve?” he told AFP.
“There were not enough of us to sustain that kind of a siege,” Francois said. “I had run out of (rubber bullet) ammunition. We really got a fright. We felt they were out to kill us. We didn’t know where we were any more.” [emphasis added]
Police unionists and officers admitted that security forces were “caught off guard” on Monday, the worst night of violence.
Tuesday’s ramped-up police operation, with 1,000 men and surveillance helicopters deployed to Villiers alone, was overseen by one of France’s highest police chiefs in a sign of the gravity of the situation.
President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Wednesday that rioters who shot at police would be severely punished.
“Opening fire at officials is completely unacceptable,” Sarkozy warned, accusing the rioters of “attempted murder” and promising that “those who take it into their hands to shoot at officials will find themselves in court.”
Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has suggested that local gang leaders were orchestrating the violence, vowing “zero tolerance” in rooting out the ringleaders.
A report from Le Monde newspaper described boys as young as 13 taking orders from their elders to torch buildings and forming battle ranks against the police, vowing to “do in” a “pig” — a police officer.
“When you fire at close range on police officers, it is obvious you intend to injure if not worse,” Alliot-Marie said said.
“This is intolerable, whatever the reasons — which are clearly just excuses for some people to settle scores or cover up their criminal activities.”
.Just when I thought that there wasn’t A COMMUNITY LEFT TO DEMEAN THE POLICE fORCE [ SORRY ,i MEANT SERVICE] IREAD AN ARTICLE INTHE “police”written by Alan GORDON , A POLICE FEDERATION REP.IN WHICH HE CLAIMS THAT THE cid WERE [USING HIS WORDS [ THE CREME DE LA CREME AND ONLY THE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WERE TRANS FERED. iF A D.C WAS PUT BACK INTO UNIFORM IT WAS A A “DEMOTION” HOW CAN A CONSTABLE BE DEMOTED TO A CONSTABLE.The theme of mr. gordons article was,in my view , that all uniformed men were moroons In a recent article in the west midlands police journal an ex d.inp, wrote articles in the same vein. I E-mailed the journal stating that more criminals were arrested by the uniformed branch than local c.i.d. officers however the editor decided not to publish my article. 3 weeks later the ex d/i died!!MOST “LOCAL” C.I . D OFFICERS WERE IDLE TOSSERS WAITING FO “HAND- OVERS FROM THE UNIFORM BRANCH!
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