"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
rth.li...
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Mizter T wrote:

Whatever, the police really need to get their act in order.

Oh, you noticed that?

I am really utterly perplexed by how the police maange to get away with
being a bunch of incompetent thugs. Not that there aren't good individual
policemen, but there are certainly some very bad ones, and the
organisation as a whole is a disaster. It just seems that nobody with the
power to do anything about it gives a toss. Or has it just not occurred
to people that things could be any better?



Despite all the publicity from last week's incidents there is another
example of a police officer with his identification numbers removed from
his uniform.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...+ID/article.do

Senior officers are expressing surprise about this but must have been
aware, the Sergeants and Inspectors from being on the streets with them and
the higher levels from watching CCTV. It is impossible that they were
unaware of the practice.

The lower levels must also have been aware of the alleged practice of
swapping numbers around to confuse identification.