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Post by david on Oct 30, 2021 17:11:20 GMT 1
I caught a bit of the news yesterday and it showed the Met police commissioner walking around somewhere with two police constables. I despair. The one on the left was about 6ft 4inches wearing a black beard that was fully a foot long. I mean, I ask you - what happened to British standards. oh I am sure there will be some comments on the forum, but I don’t care. The country is going to sh..
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Post by woolybanana on Oct 30, 2021 17:15:55 GMT 1
What is wrong with beards, pray? I am would be more worried about standards of fitness and of morality than that.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Oct 30, 2021 17:16:08 GMT 1
If that's your example of a country going to shit why did you overlook child poverty, incompetent government, world-leading Covid mismanagement or myriad things more noteworthy than a copper's beard?
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Post by FFS on Oct 30, 2021 17:24:13 GMT 1
Had it been a Sikh police officer, would you have had the same reaction?
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Post by Aardvark on Oct 30, 2021 17:38:19 GMT 1
The big lad might have been in a ZZ Top tribute band after hours.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 17:42:11 GMT 1
Yes it’s shameful what is allowed in the police force these days it really is ,I believe that they are even letting those what’s it calleds in ,I’ll think of it in a minute it’s in the tip of my tongue oh yes that’s it women What ever next
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Post by david on Oct 30, 2021 18:08:29 GMT 1
I know all about the myriad problems. All I said was that it was an example.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 18:17:28 GMT 1
I caught a bit of the news yesterday and it showed the Met police commissioner walking around somewhere with two police constables. I despair. The one on the left was about 6ft 4inches wearing a black beard that was fully a foot long. I mean, I ask you - what happened to British standards. oh I am sure there will be some comments on the forum, but I don’t care. The country is going to sh.. You say the constable could be about 6 ft 4 inch tall. Is this based on relative size? In terms of morality, I read somewhere that the law abiding commissioner was under the height for police recruitment when she applied and so was, shall we say, not quite telling the truth.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 18:23:06 GMT 1
I think they probably measured her themselves so they would have known. Yvonne Fletcher was under the height limit when she joined I think there was a bit of a blind eye turned in cases of good candidates
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Post by Le-Dolly on Oct 30, 2021 19:08:00 GMT 1
I caught a bit of the news yesterday and it showed the Met police commissioner walking around somewhere with two police constables. I despair. The one on the left was about 6ft 4inches wearing a black beard that was fully a foot long. I mean, I ask you - what happened to British standards. oh I am sure there will be some comments on the forum, but I don’t care. The country is going to sh.. You say the constable could be about 6 ft 4 inch tall. Is this based on relative size? In terms of morality, I read somewhere that the law abiding commissioner was under the height for police recruitment when she applied and so was, shall we say, not quite telling the truth. Are you referring to Caress A Dick?
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Post by FFS on Oct 30, 2021 19:54:10 GMT 1
david , what was, in your view, wrong with the beard? Badly trimmed, or just too obvious? Do you think all police officers should be clean shaven?
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Post by ForumUser2 on Oct 30, 2021 20:38:09 GMT 1
You say the constable could be about 6 ft 4 inch tall. Is this based on relative size? In terms of morality, I read somewhere that the law abiding commissioner was under the height for police recruitment when she applied and so was, shall we say, not quite telling the truth. Are you referring to Caress A Dick? Yes. Cressida Dickhead of the Met. Sorry, Cressida Dick, head of the Met
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 0:28:40 GMT 1
I mean, I ask you - what happened to British standards. The country is going to sh.. I concur. Police officers with foot long facial hair and written questions without question marks? We're off to hell in a handcart I tell you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 6:47:33 GMT 1
I think they probably measured her themselves so they would have known. Yvonne Fletcher was under the height limit when she joined I think there was a bit of a blind eye turned in cases of good candidates Yvonne Fletcher appears to have been turned down by other forces before joining the Met. Cressida Dick joined the Met initially and was "grateful to the measuring nurse who helped me".
I accept that the rule was arbitrary and now does not apply. My point was that there were rules bent. Not a good way to start a career in law, though it appears acceptable in the Met. and to its present commissioner.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 7:06:42 GMT 1
I think we are clutching at straws a bit there,it’s hardly what Operation Countryman was concerned with
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