On Mar 18, 11:14*pm, "Brian Watson" wrote:
wrote in message

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Some accidents on the M25 and A40 this morning basically gridlocked most
of west
london thanks to plod taking their own sweet time to clear up the scene..
Does
it really warrant closing a major road for 3 bloody hours (and counting)
just
to take notes of a car crash? Once the casualties have been ferried away ,
take some photos and push the vehicles onto the side of the road until
they
can be towed away. What is the bloody problem with plod in this country?
Why
does even a modest accident have to be a ****ing "crime scene"? Have they
really got nothing else better to do with their time?

It's impatience like that that causes accidents.


Nobody has yet said why our police need a substantial amount of hours
to accomplish what foreign police manage in usually about an hour? The
quality of proof to gain a conviction in say the Netherlands is just
as stringent as in the UK so why the delays?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
NM wrote:
Nobody has yet said why our police need a substantial amount of hours
to accomplish what foreign police manage in usually about an hour? The
quality of proof to gain a conviction in say the Netherlands is just
as stringent as in the UK so why the delays?

My guess would be lazyness. If no one makes you hurry then you won't so
plod isn't going to get his arse into gear and get everything sorted in an
hour if he can keep the road closed, have an easy life and take 3.

B2003

"NM" wrote in message
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Nobody has yet said why our police need a substantial amount of hours
to accomplish what foreign police manage in usually about an hour?

Having worked on Police systems in the past I would say it's very unusual
for accident investigation to be a major cause of delay.

In the UK the Police role at the accident site is largely scene management,
because other agencies deal with the injured and dead, removal of damaged
vehicles and making safe any damage to the infrastructure. Any of these can
take hours to sort out before a road can be safely reopened, but without
detailed knowledge of a particular incident I wouldn't know what the
reason(s) for a prolonged road closure are.

You don't get this sort of detail from a road traffic report on the radio,
which is why I asked the OP for his information sources.

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DAS