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Wtf are they about !?!?
Had the misfortune of speaking to a couple of plonks last night.
BMW 5 estate, imitation police car both got out full uniform which again imitation police uniform complete with handcuffs, radios etc.
I had to take a second glance just to check they weren’t the real deal.
They have no more power than any citizen, as for handcuffs apparently anyone can handcuff anyone according to the law.
They actually thought they were police, more like Polankas !
I guess they show a presence but thats about it.
Feel free to add !
You don't give a context so it's hard to say...
Were they site security? halloween party?
What were you up to that attracted their attention?
What were you up to that attracted their attention
Lol nothing they pulled up next to me when I was parking. We both got out our cars at the same time.
Oh. those guys.
Tbh, I've got to give them credit where it's due. There's a team that patrol the area where my unit is. Whenever there's an alarm they're there in a flash. They've always been polite and courteous whenever I've encountered them but I imagine if you were a 'wrong un' up to no good they could very quickly ruin your evening. Which is great. They provide a very visible and a very real deterrent against commercial break-ins.
‘Walt’ I believe is the technical term.
See also ‘4x4 Response’.
Great thread on the anti-STW forum…
Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
There's one lives in the next village. They do try too hard to look like Police, but have been friendly to locals as far as I am aware.
We had some alleged attempted abductions at the local secondary schools earlier this year, and if they were free they drove round the estates by the schools during the school run times, which pleased the local FB nutters who wanted the Police to shoot any male in a hoodie just as a precaution.
I had a run in with nutters from the Ringwood Free Militia Community Support Group while riding to the New Forest during the first lockdown.
Five of loons jumped out of a hedge wearing full black combat gear including handcuffs, a baton and two with big hunting knives demanding to know where I had come from and where I was going. Having a scottish accent sent them in to a frenzy as clearly 'foreign' people can't live down here.
A quick call to 999 stating I'd been detained by armed men saw the actual armed police turn up pretty quick and the wanna be vigilantes getting a pretty stern talking to.
I haven't seen them since.
What bizarre people.
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I feel as though this could be great material for a comedy, in a similar vein to the Detectorists.
Also thinking of Mike from Spaced.
Joe lycett's recent program on shell. When he was at the hq there were normal hivis security then at one point to police officers turned up but they weren't.
As far as I'm concerned that should be an offence.
I had wondered why the heck they deck up the cars like that but a borehole driller asked us to get a dog unit in this week to sit overnight outside a site in London where thefts of drilling equipment are high. Basically, they look like that to make themselves really obvious and visible to wrong uns so they don't try anything on.
They have a dog in the boot and the boot unlatched ready to go if anyone starts trying to break in but the silly cars and daft outfits are to make themselves noticeable so things don't get to that stage. Apparently they're very effective.
great material for a comedy
Fairly Secret Army?
Mall Cop?
They might cover the remit?
Not sure what the issue is really, sure if they're going around detaining joe public just because they don't like the look of them that's one but if they're just trying to look like more of a deterrent to scrotes than they'd be as just a couple of guys in civvies in a white Astra van then that's fine by me.