Read this tale of utter stupidity on behalf of Humberside Police & the CPS. It underlines just how far things have deteriorated... if they can't play fair amongst themselves what chance do the General Public have?

www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/P...-detail/article.html

It's an interesting case .... where yet again a policeman is found Not Guilty - despite the evidence.

He DID mount the kerb - so how can he be not guilty ?

Jury, perhaps, all older folk who still think that a policeman can do no wrong (Magistrates used to think like that - but not anymore!)?

I thought the police had leeway to break driving laws in emergency situations.
While being no lover of the police as an organization this does seem a ridiculous waste of time and money.
Those few police who are prepared to take risks with their own lives to try to save others should be encouraged,not insulted.

Round where I live people mount the curb all the time and nobody does anything. Cars park on the footpath all over the place up and down the street as standard. Just the other day I had a car mount the curb and look at me as if to say "get out of my way". Pakistanis round here have no concept of local driving codes and right of way. They just press the right pedal to go forward, steer, and press the middle pedal when they get to where they are going. The concept of a pedestrian having a right of way if he is already crossing the road a car has not yet entered is beyond them. Horn honking, furrowed brows, gesticulation, you have no idea. If you want to get an idea just look at a video of driving conditions in rural pakistan. That's pretty much where these people are coming from. The police don't give a flying florescent light bulb.

What happened to this officer seems absurd.

Come to think of it, I distinctly remember seeing a police van in Oldham, parked half _on_ the curb, with blue lights going, and the officers inside getting their fish and chips. What was that about? I even got video evidence.

So now an officer gets prosecuted for mounting the curb in a genuine emergency. What a bunch of bullying partial law-applying twats, allegedly. Who said that? Did someone break the Public Order Act 1986 section 4? Better watch that.

Best Wishes,
Jim

bizarre.

I thought all emergency vehicles could basically break road rules in an emergency. In fact why shouldn't they ?...within reason.

That's a bit racist, wouldn't you say, Jim..?

Thanks Plissken, you ask,

"That's a bit racist, wouldn't you say, Jim..?"

Why?

Best Wishes,
Jim

Innocent Accused wrote:
Those few police who are prepared to take risks with their own lives to try to save others should be encouraged,not insulted.

I could fill this page with links to news stories of people who have been killed / injured by police whilst speeding !

Thats why the law applies to ALL - not some !

In The Know wrote:
Innocent Accused wrote:
Those few police who are prepared to take risks with their own lives to try to save others should be encouraged,not insulted.

I could fill this page with links to news stories of people who have been killed / injured by police whilst speeding !

Thats why the law applies to ALL - not some !

I always thought the law was that the emergency services could speed etc when responding to an emergency.I do not believe this has changed,and do not believe this should change if responding to an emergency situation.
Of course some idiots will always take this too far,as is human nature,but these are normally cases where individual idiots put their own 'importance' before commonsense.