The role play consisted of two police officers in a Police Station when, Rupert, one of the trainers entered the station and immediately started being belligerent, then two other probationers entered with their ‘prisoner’, Neville (the other trainer) who was the ‘father’ of Rupert. The incident escalated until Rupert had to be arrested. The trainers thought this would be an opportunity to see some ‘action’ and Rupert was planning to give a ‘true flavour of an arrest’ by being realistic in his use of aggression, however Rupert's plan was scuppered when, after poking the wpc who was behind the desk, Mr Bill grabbed the unruly Rupert's hand twisted it sharply behind his back and lowered him to the floor before he could react, Mr Bill then snapped on the cuffs and that was the end of the action! Rupert had miscalculated how fast an individual of Mr Bill's advanced age could move and just how strong he is too! Ooh! Those cuffs do hurt.
When all the action was over it was time to get on with the paperwork and there was a lot of it….
Each individual involved was required to write a statement, the arresting officer had to also write an arrest statement, the pocket notebooks needed to include all the details too and these were then photocopied and included in the file.
It becomes apparent now why sometimes the police are reluctant to proceed in certain cases as they know that after all their hard work the individual is not going to get his comeuppance when he does appear in court and yet they have spent hours assembling the case.
3 comments:
What about getting the 'perps' to do the paperwork?
I have been reading these blogs for a while now and I must admit everyone has said about the amount of paperwork they have to do. I have often wondered if, on occasions, it would be fine to just give the person a talking to and then that would not involve doing all that paperwork.
Now I mean this only on very minor incidents where no-one has been injured or hurt.
I wonder if other police officers have done this as well. I would not blame them really, not after hearing about all the paperwork they have to do.
I am inclined to think the 'perps' would not do it properly
regarding just giving a talking to the miscreant I do think in very minor cases this probably does happen frequently - but it still seems Mr Bill is going to have to learn paper-handling/filing big time.
on a positive note Mr Bill passed his exam on the last couple of weeks' work and was out celebrating last night - not too much one hopes as he has another test today on - I can't remember what it is called -but it is preventing attacks and restraining those people who do attack you - it does mean he will come home with sore wrists from having handcuffs put on so many times (when he is pretending to be the baddie). I should have made this a proper blog entry!
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