3. The people that come out of looking most stupid are the scum that the BTP
have to deal with. It's a shame that there aren't more BTP around to allow
them to effectively patrol our transport systems, rather than turn up very
occasionally at incidents. They have a far better understanding of what they
are doing and of what is safe than P.C. Plod from the local nick does when
he/she gets involved in railway matters!

So if they know so much about the railways how come

a) they patrol in police cars rather than on the actual trains.
b) One of them jumped on a train track at a major UK station without
any high visiblity clothing or asking the signal box if there was a
train coming or even just looking to see if there was a train coming?