[ThomasC]

I am thinking about joining the police as a special.

Just to do in my spare-time.

I have always been fascinated in the emergency services. Even growing up, The Bill was my favourite programme.

Do you know anyone or have any experience/stories?

I am used to dealing with challenging situations and even once was pretty close to getting run over

I'm not 100% sure it would be for me as i don't think you ever are with something like that, but it's worth a shot maybe.

[Josy]

I've honestly never heard of a 'special'

[arista]

Originally Posted by Josy

I've honestly never heard of a 'special'

https://www.met.police.uk/car/career...marketingimage

[arista]

Have they now stopped Funding "Specials"
I think.



Are you in love with the Uniform?

[Alf]

They have PCSO's now.

Police Community Support Officers.

They're useless.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by Josy

I've honestly never heard of a 'special'

It's a voluntary police officer, but you have all the same powers as a regular police officer.

Only difference is you don't get paid for it and have to do a minimum of so many hours. It's very little though so I could just do one shift a week.

Originally Posted by arista

Have they now stopped Funding "Specials"
I think.



Are you in love with the Uniform?

I'm not sure. I'm going to look into it. I know they're recruiting for regular officers, but don't want to do that.

Yeah I like the uniform, but lots of other things too.

Originally Posted by Alf

They have PCSO's now.

Police Community Support Officers.

They're useless.

I wouldn't say they're useless. They have an important role to play.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

It's a voluntary police officer, but you have all the same powers as a regular police officer.

Only difference is you don't get paid for it and have to do a minimum of so many hours. It's very little though so I could just do one shift a week.



I'm not sure. I'm going to look into it. I know they're recruiting for regular officers, but don't want to do that.

Yeah I like the uniform, but lots of other things too.



I wouldn't say they're useless. They have an important role to play.

Important my arse.

Arista, this guy needs to see how AB deals with PCSO's

Watch some "Auditing Britain" on YouTube before you make the decision to join the force. He learns Police constables how to be Police constables and not Police Officers. He gives better training than they teach at Police school.

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by Alf

Important my arse.

Arista, this guy needs to see how AB deals with PCSO's

Watch some "Auditing Britain" on YouTube before you make the decision to join the force. He learns Police constables how to be Police constables and not Police Officers. He gives better training than they teach at Police school.

I know exactly who AB is and I've seen his videos and he's a twat.

He purposely looks for trouble. He relies on them otherwise he'd have no videos.

He's the most argumentative twat I've seen.

If you're going to film outside police stations in the current climate don't be shocked when you're stopped and asked why. It's not rocket science. He's embarrassing

[Alf]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

I know exactly who AB is and I've seen his videos and he's a twat.

He purposely looks for trouble. He relies on them otherwise he'd have no videos.

He's the most argumentative twat I've seen.

No, he minds his own business, doing a legal activity and exposes the cops who try to bully and harras him, sometimes infringe on his rights.

This is a good community service that he provides to the public. The Police are our public servants whom we pay for, so it's important for us to see them in action and make sure they're not abusing the authority we allow them.

There are some good constables out there, but there are also some bad eggs that do abuse that power. We the people need to know that our money is being used correctly.

[Cherry Christmas]

Ours are pretty active in the community they go around in pairs on bikes, and have coffee mornings with residents, I think you might enjoy that!

[Smithy]

As if my joke got deleted

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by Smithy

As if my joke got deleted

What joke?

[user104658]

For further reference: I'm not at all in the "defund the police" mindset, moreso the "the police are already under-funded" mindset. Fund them better, train more paid officers if necessary, pay people to perform community support roles alongside (I personally would see money diverted more heavily towards community support than law enforcement).

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

For further reference: I'm not at all in the "defund the police" mindset, moreso the "the police are already under-funded" mindset. Fund them better, train more paid officers if necessary, pay people to perform community support roles alongside (I personally would see money diverted more heavily towards community support than law enforcement).

No, we don't want officers, we want constables.

Constables belong to us the people, Officers belong to a company.

What does the O stand for in CEO?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Alf

No, we don't want officers, we want constables.

Constables belong to us the people, Officers belong to a company.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

No, Communism is more power to the government I'm talking about Trumpism, which is taking back the power from the swamp and returning it to the people. Which is what we're living through right now.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Alf

No, Communism is more power to the government

No that's authoritarianism/totalitarianism, which do indeed often go hand-in-hand with actual implementations of supposed Communism, but they are not philosophically Communist. Law enforcement being accountable to the public at large is 100% a communist ideology.

I'm talking about Trumpism, which is taking back the power from the swamp and returning it to the people. Which is what we're living through right now.

And this, if it were indeed ever Trump's actual goal, would be called Libertarianism (not to be confused with liberalism). Of course it's not what Trump is or was ever actually doing but that's a seQarate debate.


Neither has anything to do with Communism, other than certain Americans being a bit confused about their political terminology. Communism in the modern context (Soviet Russia, CCP China) has gone hand-in-hand with totalitarianism, because large-scale Communism is near-impossible to implement without being strictly enforced, due to people naturally tending towards individualism/Libertarianism, as we (as a species) are instinctually individualistic and not altruistic (e.g. it's become very obvious in recent years that an awful lot of people who describe themselves as socialists are deeply invested in the concept of hyper-individualism, a form of extreme libertarianism, and the clash between the two requires an absolute boatload of cognitive dissonance).



If you're going to talk about this stuff you need a better understanding of political ideologies and terminologies though Alf because again;

tl;dr;

The concept of the police being true public servants is absolutely 100% socialism.


[edit to add] "Trumpism" is not a political term with any real meaning.

[michael21]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

I am thinking about joining the police as a special.

Just to do in my spare-time.

I have always been fascinated in the emergency services. Even growing up, The Bill was my favourite programme.

Do you know anyone or have any experience/stories?

I am used to dealing with challenging situations and even once was pretty close to getting run over

I'm not 100% sure it would be for me as i don't think you ever are with something like that, but it's worth a shot maybe.

Goid luck

[Oliver_W]

Good for you, man !!

[Holly Christmas]

An ex of mine told me he was a special constable. He turned out to be a lying bastard.

[arista]

He is tall enough