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Michael R N Dolbear

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On 16 Oct, 00:06, "Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
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On 15 Oct, 01:56, "Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
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. There is no such thing in the UK police service as a
superior
officer, {...}
The law refered to is S 178 Licensing Act 1964
... except by authority of a superior officer of that
constable.
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There are things a police "superior officer" can't order, but
"go
and
get a bite to eat" isn't one of them.
The Police have senior officers, not superior officers. It is a
standard convention that every police officer starts at the same
rank,
unlike for example the armed services. it's one of the first
things
taught at basic training. The rank structure,the badges of rank
and
that nobody in the police service is superior to anybody else,
they
may be senior in rank or experience, never superior. That is why
a
suitably qualified PC can be in effective command of a situation
where
the superintendent stood next to him does not have the requisite
training or experience but is on hand to take over when
practicable.

That could and does happen in the armed forces too but they
nevertheless have "superior officers". If someone is an officer and
is
superior in rank then they are a "superior officer".

Do pay attention, I quoted the text of statute law above, your
assertion, like "never off-duty", implies the law is meaningless.

Judges have held otherwise.

Dolbear, I know a hell of a lot about the law, and statute or not
what
ever some outsider thinks, NOBODY is superior to anyone else within
the police. Next you'll be saying white slave owners were superior to
the people they say they owned. If some judge cannot understand the
distinction, that is not my problem. The correct terminology is
senior, not superior. Anyone claiming otherwise is just being
offensive, and anyone in the police who claimed to be "superior" soon
had the gloss rubbed off their pips, usually by someone senior to
them.

Which answer does rather leave the police open to "Police Culture
forbids use of terminology used by Acts of Parliament" and "there are
three ways of saying this, the legal way, the wrong way and the police
way".

Canteen Culture rules KO.

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Mike D