Commentary
| Date | 01 January 1979 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7905200101 |
| Published date | 01 January 1979 |
| Subject Matter | Commentary |
KNOW
YOUR
FRIENDS
These are strange days when one day the Police Federation look
for bedfellows amongst the T.U .c., who in their
turn
show their real
feelings for the police by their twisted descriptions of individual
members of
that
service.
And only a little later, we find
another
arm
of those sworn to
safeguard the laws of this country declaring proudly
that
as a result
of their 'industrial action' prospective drugs smugglers were walking
through
one of
our
principal airports unhindered and unchallenged.
It
might even be
that
such a
thought
may cross some minds the
next time police officers are asked to worktogether with the officers
of
Her
Majesty's Customs
and
Excise or the latter make known to
the press their reservations
about
the reliability of some police
officers in drugs enquiries.
A
POLICEMAN
LOOKS AT POLITICS
No police officer, worth their salt, is a political animal.
That
is why it is the more refreshing to read the issues of the
Rhodesian police (sorry, the BSAP) magazine
"THE
OUTPOST".
Just
as reading daily of what happens in Ulster must remind all of
us of some even deeper problems of being a police officer trying to
'hold
the ring' in a situation not of any police officer's choosing, then
you must realise the more clearly
just
what those problems can be.
All of which makes it the more reassuring
that
our
colleagues can
still in such difficult circumstances produce such interesting and
professional accounts of a police officer's life under fire.
What
a much easier easy life we would have without those who are
alleged to be elected to represent us!
ARE
WE LOSING
THE
BATTLE?
Someone once said
that
all publicity is good providing they spell
your
name right.
The
Police Service could have well done without some recent
contributions. which enabled the media to play one senior officer or
ex-senior officer off against another. Arather embarrassing
occasion.
One can only recommend arather older phrase
"The
king is dead,
long live the king", which must also apply to Commissioners we
would have thought.
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