To protect and to serve ... whom?

[The Lone Gunman]

Speeding fines aren't a tax (unless you think GBH fines are a tax on violence) - slow down a bit= no fine.

Speed limits are an arbitrary thing these days.
If people slow down then the limits will be set lower.

[pzz76077]

I always thought that the police were there to produce unbelievable statistics on why crime is so bad these days....


To pick up on a previous post the SFO, being part of the police I think, are have some responsibility for collecting in cases of blatant violation of the tax laws, so do contribute to the tax pot a bit (not not too sucessfully).

PZZ

[expat]

Of course it is not news that the police protect the political system, it's the same word after all. What I do think is new is the proliferation in this country of special police groups whose only job is to protect the government (against us?), who do not have an ethos of protecting the people, as your local plod does even when he is exercising a duty that one may personally dislike.

[threaded]

Is it my imagination, or are there more and more special bits of the police whose purpose is not to protect us but to protect the government?

It always was a myth that they were there for you.

Good one the other day, an old tv show, sergeant says "the rate payers need protecting from the likes of you"

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Isn't "to protect and to serve" the Septics' Police motto anyway? Nowt to do with our Dixon of Dock Greens is it?

[Bagpuss]

Is it my imagination, or are there more and more special bits of the police whose purpose is not to protect us but to protect the government?

Yes it's to protect the establishment. That's why stealing money from institutions is more serious in sentence than rape or violence against the person