The other day we saw a group of young police officers undergoing some
kind of training in a shopping precinct. There appeared to be equal numbers of
young men and women but what we particularly noticed was how small the women
police officers were compared to their male counterparts. It is of course
illegal to discriminate or reject applicants on the basis of their height.
Whatever they were doing, these young police officers did
much of it in pairs, usually male/female pairs as far as we could see. One
pairing had a male police officer who seemed to be well over six feet in height
and strongly built with a dumpy female officer a good foot shorter. He looked
intimidating while she looked as intimidating as a lollipop lady.
Appearances can be deceptive of course and maybe that young
woman was a martial arts expert as she would need to be in any physical
altercation. Or maybe modern policing is more like bureaucratic field work than
the policing of days gone by. Maybe Tasers make all the difference, I don’t
know.
3 comments:
The little one decides that you have said or done something which might conceivably cause distress to a protected minority. Then the big one gets your arm up your back. On their own, or paired up with their own sort, they couldn't do anything.
3 Swedish female cops fail to arrest one 'asylum seeker' - highly amusing, a passerby assists them by flooring him, they then can't subdue and cuff him, he escapes their clutches, and they end up watching him from afar while he trashes their police car with rocks.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoqXLbchg6Y
Sam - so that's it? The little one is something like an agent provocateur.
Sobers - that's grim and even worse because it was foreseeable and foreseen.
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