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Plod just need TJ to explain the rotational injuries from helmets and how they're safer without them.
pretty sure they'd still chase you for more serious crimes. I think the reasoning is that if an anpr (or whatever) check showed irregularities with insurance/tax etc it's probably not worth risking death when in the event that the "crim" does get caught they'd only get a tap on the wrist and told not to do it again anyway.
In that respect I can see their point.
From the article in your OP: [i]"Officers "rarely chase" helmet-less riders because if they fall off they may die, [b]a Met Police email said[/b]"[/i]Pigface - MemberHow do crims learn this stuff
The police don’t need to chase an escaping bank robber, they just have to wait for his moped to hit a speed bump and all the little pens on chains will fall out of his pockets
How do crims learn this stuff?
Maybe the crims work at the BBC...
[b]In an email sent to the BBC in error[/b], the Met Police revealed many suspects take off their helmets when riding away from officers in pursuit.
Or maybe the police regularly accidentally email out details of convenient ways to evade the law.
They obviously haven't thought this through;
Wear a helmet and remain anonymous. Don't wear a helmet and have every camera filming your boat. Plod picks you up once they've finished their donuts...
Det Supt Raffaele D'orsi
"We have a moral duty and actually a mandate as police officers to protect the public, that includes offenders who are trying to escape from us.
Er? Really? The Police are morally obliged to protect offenders? Since when? More Political Correctness gone mad if you ask me.......
(if you take you decide to "run from police" as long as you are not being forced to do it, then i can't see the police have any moral obligation at all. if the risks are unacceptable to the chasie, then just stop when asked to do so by a police officer!)
🙄 it's an extension of the car chase thing. Police chase ne'er do wells in cars, car ploughs into a group of people, fatalities occur, this reflects badly on all concerned.More Political Correctness gone mad if you ask me.......
Chasing some lidless numpty when chances are they're just going to get a ticking off*? Risking death doesn't seem a sensible choice. Again I'd expect armed robbers or other more serious criminals to be pursued.
*I'm pissed off about lenient sentences for road crime but I'm also fully aware that a high speed vehicle chase in a public place is a bad thing, you've got to balance what is best for the public.
They're all wrong... rob a bank then drive off leisurely in a cloud of fumes in an old Land Rover and you become magically invisible as Landies are so much part of the landscape and so unremarkable.
well if any crims hadn't realised that, at least the BBC has let them know.
*facepalm
Maybe it's a clever ploy. Crims remove helmets police DO chase and give them a quick nudge. End of criminal.
Our regular clients build up a knowledge of where the police helicopter won't over fly and which roads the police won't pursue on also where to abandon a chase with least chance of getting seen on the helicopter footage. They pick this up from practical experience and from what is let slip in interview .
Manchester had armed robbers who shot members of the public during police chases in the hope the pursuing officers would stop to render first aid so scrotes ridding without helmets seems low key and allows the odd bit of Darwinism to creep in.
Maybe they should take the Spanish approach to fleeing motorcyclists.