Aside from nicking fare dodgers, scraping people up off of train tracks and "hearding" football fans around, what do they actually do anyway???
Seems to me that their role and resposibilty is outdated. For example, if you get mugged on a train then it's the BT police who deal with it - even though their nearest bloke may be miles away. However, if you get mugged having just got off a train and left the station then it's the responsibility of the local plod to sort out - who will likely get there quicker.
Moral of the story: If you're going to mug someone do it in the doorway of a train station ticket office. By the time they've worked out who should deal with it you'll be long gone!!!
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For instance he was rostered to do a BNP march in Greenwich the other week of which only 7 BNP turned up HILARIOUSLY.
Buskers, illegal DVD sellers on the tube, they also do a lot of MET work as well.
my bruv has only joined to fast track into the MET.
he has also been doing a lot training courses to London Underground staff on how to deal with pissed u 'erberts like us and difficult customers - why the police have to do that
yeah they also have road authority as well
No, that's "Traffic" - something different. I think each force has it's own traffic department. God knows, all seems more than a bit disjointed to me!
So, just to recap, if you got mugged on a tube between Chancery Lane and St Pauls you could find yourself giving three separate statements to three (likely clueless) coppers from three different forces, who in turn would probably each assume that it's the responsibility of one of the others and therefore do nothing.
Right, that settles it - I'm going down on the Central Line with me cosh!
BTW 7 BNP on the march. ha ha. Even in the seventies when I was a bit more "active" politically we always had more numbers than them but 7 (seven)!
The Judean Peoples Front ............. or maybe it was the Peoples Front of Judea?
Anyone remember Red Stuart Fancy from the Covered End mid seventies.
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LOL Yeah maybe but better than the alternative
I think in the last couple of years they have both been merged, rather sensibly, into the Met.
The river police have been in the Met as long as I can remember. They do a vast amount of work up and down the Thames (dragging boddies out mostly, yuk), get called to ponds, lakes etc that need searching & now help parts of the Thames that are covered by Essex & Kent as both of them have dispanded their launches due to costing. Trust me, most of the time their's is a cold & windy job. But I bet it's great fun in the summer!
Protecting the publicn from unruly arseholes going to and from football
Attempting to prevent an ever-increasing tide of tube/train violence and muggings
Stopping pissed-up twats falling onto train tracks on a regular basis
Oh, and not to mention trying to protect us from the next wave of terrorist atrocities on our public transport network...
That and 'scraping people up off train tracks' seems to be a pretty decent list of things to start with, don't you think?
Unless, of course, there's anyone else on here who thinks they'd like to undertake those particular tasks...
Steady on there Leroy! You're not BTP - are you?