Police in the News

But buying The Daily Telegraph wasn't a complete waste of £1.40 as some interesting stories in it caught my eye.

First up, a police officer arrests a trafficc warden for ticketing his car. A nieghbour said; "We're always having problems down here with wardens targeting motorists unfairly and this time one got his comeuppance." I wish I was a police person. I'd be out arresting mothers who smoke whilst pushing children in pushchairs and those people who walk slowly whilst taking up the whole width of pavements down the High Street. They should get their comeuppance too.

But sometimes, apparently, it is the police themselves who get their comeuppance. Ruby Kasawaya had been burgled eight times and been the victim of six cases of criminal damage, but got a little exasperated that the police didn't seem all that bothered.

"So when two male constables visited finally visited her home to discuss the problems she locked the doors and allegedly held them captive."

The police called for help, or back-up as the technical term would probably have it, and Mrs Kasaway was arrested and charged with obstructing police work. Mrs Kasaway's response was that the police "don't do their jobs around here - that's my point."

"You can wait nine hours for a police officer to come out after you've been burgled, but the minute that two of their officers say they've been taken hostage there are eight of them outside your door."

Sometimes though, the police do get very busy, but not always with the correct people as we all know. Apparently a man in Flintshire found himself awoken at night by police armed with sub-machineguns breaking into his house and fixing the guns' red lasers on him as they dragged him out of bed. He was then handcuffed and hauled off to police cells.

Who was this man, you ask, what had he done and was he a Muslim? Well, no he wasn't a Muslim and nor was he a criminal.

But he had been unfortunate enough to park outside of a MacDonalds whilst a robbery was taking place earlier in the day. Police now accept he was innocent and have made a full page apology in the local newspaper.