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Petition - give police a camera and bike
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Posted 10 years ago #
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There are already police on bikes. They wear police uniforms and ride gloriously impractical off-road bikes while wearing way too much clothing. Undercover police that don't actually look like bobbies-on-bikes is the obvious next step: the equivalent of unmarked cars.
(On a side note I have cycled to two large police stations now in order to make statements and neither have had any facility to lock up cycles. The station in Maryhill even had posters showing police riding bikes. But not even a handrail to tie up to.)
Posted 10 years ago # -
I know Edinburgh has cycle cops - at least in the summer - but i don't see them on the roads as much as I would like. do they actually cruise up and down looking for driving faults? my sense is they use them to patrol parks, paths, etc more.
Do other areas have them too?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Yes, plain clothes needed since they already have bikes and cameras but also labour under the belief that every single Edinburgh driver is perfect in every way.
Posted 10 years ago # -
It would be nice if distraction from mobile phone/tablet/laptop use was given the same stigma as drink driving. Perceptions have changed there so it is possible.
Min and Dougal are right in my opinion - the police need to going in fancy dress as commuters on realistic commuter bikes.
I suppose it's a vain and mean hope, but I'd like to see one day a really drawn-out censorious lecture given to a driver by a plain-clothed police cyclist - perhaps for even for a close pass or something "trivial" like that.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I spoke to a police officer who said many of the Edinburgh city police cycle to work, presumably in plain clothes. And that they see a lot of bad driving. No mention of what the results are.
Posted 10 years ago # -
You'd think in order to avoid going slowly insane that police officers would learn to ignore offences they see out of uniform.
Imagine how long it would take to get to work if you were having to give out FPNs for all the bad driving you saw!
Big thumbs up to the idea of on the clock undercover police cyclists though.
Posted 10 years ago # -
A friend on the force was mending his car when a rascally rapscallion came by and half inched the wireless.
My chum gave chase, pursued and subdued the miscreant by sitting on him then called on a passerby to phone the cops. The passerby unfortunately was an associate of the original villain and unwilling to be of assistance.
Eventually it all worked out. As soon as my old friend went after the bad guy he had gone back on duty and apparently got paid to rescue his own radio.
I'm never off the clock, useless information is freely passed on at any time of day.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've got a friend in Glasgow who cycles in Kelvingrove Park for pleasure or in full police uniform on duty. He said he wouldn't dare cycling on the roads if he didn't look like a policeman.
Posted 10 years ago # -
There's at least 1 "plain clothes" police BMW AMG 5-series in town, last seen barreling down an otherwise rather empty Dalkeith Road at a great rate of knots on Saturday afternoon. It has a special siren and lights hidden behind the radiator grille that announces its importance to all, just so you know it isn't a regular police car pursuing more mundane policing matters.
Posted 10 years ago # -
There used to be a plain clothes Alpha on the A77 when I was late teens/ early twenties.
A friend was caught being a naughty girl so the rest of knew to look out for it.
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