Crime Fighting UK Style...

[Jackson1999]

Facepalm


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250174/Police-pose-burglars-bid-cut-break-ins.html

Officers have begun testing windows and doors at night as part of a campaign to increase home security.

If they find one open, they are under orders to knock on the door and drag sleepy residents from their beds and lecture them.

It gets worse.

Last year a 38-year-old woman from Hove in East Sussex was stunned when she walked into her lounge to find a PCSO clambering through her window. The woman, who did not want to be named, was then given a stern lecture by the officer on home security.

...and worse (from Digital Journal article mention another town that did this)

On that occasion elderly residents in the village of Twyford, Oxfordshire in Southeastern England had been the victims of distraction burglaries carried out between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm the previous day. The burglars had been posing as police officers and carrying fake warrant cards

[Glassunion]

1. Wha?

Warrentless entry... I thought 1984 was a work of fiction? Who knew Orwell was the Nostrodamus of the modern era?
:wow:

[proteus_lives]

2. Big Brother is alive and well in the UK.

[aliendroid]

3. police are lazy, easier to attack law abiding

The problem today with law enforcement is they are so lazy they rather keep the peace by any means. Like the couple who criticized islam by calling Mohammad a warlord and that Burkas oppress women were arrested and are now being tried for a hate crime. It is easier to arrest the english people who will not riot in the street than to say not to the the couple who will get their people to riot. Like I've always said. Governments are never moral. You may not like christians, but we all must maintain our rights, not just some of us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PTBIGxJb5A

[spin]

4. Reminds me of peeping toms ...

I'll bet the officers have some interesting stories to tell their buddies after being on this detail.