retrocop - // //I will draw my own conclusions.//
You probably would be wrong. Any other time you probably wouldn't be interested how I conducted myself as a former police officer so I wont bore you now but I do have two examples how we/I used common sense, thinking on our feet, fair judgement, acting on ones initiative, and managing to keep our head on our shoulders, compassion and allowed to use our discretion. Probably something you would be incapable of and would not last five minutes in the real world having spent all your time on AB behind a desk //
Let's just be clear what has happened here -
I asked you a simple straightforward question - it's how the site works.
I asked several times, and your response each time was a mixture of diversion, prevarication, wounded self-justification, and rudeness.
As I said, I have made up my own mind.
So not much point in you coming back again, piling on the snide sarcasm, and the inference that because I had a desk job, it makes me inferior to you.
I have reached my own conclusion based on your posts -
I am delighted that you, and hopefully many others who thought and acted like you, have either simply got too old, or been weeded out and dismissed, but by whatever means, are no longer able to assist in dragging the police force further into its biggest crisis in public confidence since its inception.
And I live in the fervent hope that whoever remains, is soon identified and removed, so that the service can begin to rebuild its shattered reputation, unhindered by the arrogance of people who are employed to act one way, upholding the law as it stands, but would really rather act in another, where vigilante attitudes rule, and violence on citizens by citizens is acceptable simply because people like you think it is.
Yes I did a desk job, and thank heavens for that - I never had to encounter you, or anyone like you, then or now.