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So can you wear glasses in the police force (i know you have eyesight tests etc...) so im just curious, i can read perfectly fine but when im concentrating on something it strains my eyes and i get headaches sometimes without wearing them, Sam

i had a phone call from a pc stating he had seen my son speeding on his motorbike! he asked to speak to me not my son! is that legal for a pc to find a telephone number from his reg plate and then call it? does a non traffic pc have sufficent experience to gauge speed just by looking?

Waiting for traffic lights to turn green, along comes a Police car, its lights flashing siren on. By law would one be allowed to go through the red lights, in order to allow Police through. We must remember the traffic light cameras, would one get away with being flashed by such a camera?

Just finished a night shift. This scenario happened to me last night and id be interested to see how you all would deal with it! I love this job, you think you have dealt with just about everything and then something new happens to catch you off guard and keep you thinking! The scenario is as follows: Its 0430hrs and your local CCTV unit calls up over the air that he has seen three males come out of a house. There has been a party going on at the address all night and all three males look a little worse for wear. The males then get into a vehicle and the CCTV operator sees the headlights come on so he calls for a unit to intercept the car. You call up for the job as yo…

Not sure where to put this - didn't want to put it in the regional section where nobody ventures!!! Anyway if you go to the LBP website, there is a link to a young drivers challenge on 13th June, held in Dalkeith. I've signed up for it - basically I think it's some of the best police drivers come along and show you some moves, probably give you good driving tips etc.. and if you bring your own car you get to take part in some driving tests. Hopefully these wont involve tearing up my car, though, else I may not participate in that part........!! Anybody else checking it out? I think it's going to be awesome, assuming it wont involve condescending lectures!

I have just started with strathclyde police and a question arose when we were covering rules and regulations, i.e the following lawful orders part. Best to put it into a scenario and see what you folks think. You are manning the door of a crime scene and the superintendent has told you that under no circumstances has anyone to go into the building. However another officer, lets say another superintendent comes on to the scene and orders you to let him into the building. These appear to be two lawful yet contradicting orders from senior ranking officers, obviously you may say radio the original officer but lets say hes busy inside dealing with something and cannot answer. …

Lately we've (Me and my brother) have been seeing signs from our mum. After speaking with someone related to the family quite a long time ago, we've found out that our mum has a mental disorder. This does actually explain most of the problems that me and my brother have been facing when with her... She has a drinking problem, and she always wants to think she's right and control us when she's had too much. She doesn't like it when we try and defend ourselves to her, like if we raise our voices, she gets very mean. She has hit us a few times without being provoked, she has actually swung a sharp knife (He says it was a carving knife) towards my brother several times. One…

hi, i have recently inherited a long service special constabulary medal dated from WW1. the medal itself displays king george on one side and states 'for faithful service in the special constbulary'. the name of the recipient, Edgar Eady, is displayed on the edge of the medal. i have recently been in contact with northamptonshire police to see if they hold any record relating to the issuing of this medal and if they had any further info on Edgar, however they stated that their curator has retired and therefore i would have to keep phoning in order to try and catch him. the reason i went straight to northamptonshire is because looking at the 1911 census Edgar appears to ha…

Can anyone tell me how to measure the frame size of a bicycle? Which two points on the frame do you measure? Or does it normally shown somewhere on the frame itself? edit: i just found out from my mate on msn. from the point where the cranks meet the frame to the point where the saddle pole enters the frame itself. it should say it on the frame itself but I couldn't find it. I checked on the manufacturers website so I knew it was either 16" or 20". I listed it on ebay and guessed 20". but after my mate just explained it I went out and measured it and I was right its 20".

but how do you log out of this forum??? I can't see the log off anywhere!!!