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agricola said:
Not really. For a start, I've never come across anyone who openly felt pride in what they did during the Miners Strike, but I have met a lot who managed to achieve financial stability as the result of all the money that the then government threw at them during that time. Almost all of them have retired now, and we will soon get to the point where almost everyone who qualified for and got a full pension will have retired too. Where there are morale issues with the rest, a lot of it is to how the Met has implemented change at least as much as the cuts - some of the change (the move away from borough-based policing to the larger BCUs especially) was brought in with very little consultation with the public and even less with the staff who would be affected by it.

With regards to "the collective police memory is that they were used and then shafted" - that has been the collective police memory since 1829.
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I'm not sure about that, an aquaintance of mine was a Au Pair for a retired Police Superintendant in Sheffield, she said he took great pleasure in showing visitors, his 'war trophies' and his photographs from Orgreave.
 
treelover said:
I'm not sure about that, an aquaintance of mine was a Au Pair for a retired Police Superintendant in Sheffield, she said he took great pleasure in showing visitors, his 'war trophies' and his photographs from Orgreave.
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Name and address please?

ETA: Having said that, Anne Scargill has some cracking pictures on her lounge wall!
 
SpookyFrank said:
They were long term, deep cover types and so unlikely to risk exposure by openly encouraging violent/aggressive tactics.
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I wasn't specifically referring to deep cover types, although as others have pointed out, they were also doing it. I don't think as a tactic it was risking exposure, getting stuck in legitimised them to peers. I am talking about people who I have personally seen involved in goading, throwing missiles etc. that have somehow managed to disappear through police lines. It was happening frequently during Occupy actions/marches/whatevers, I've seen it whilst being kettled at other demos too.
 
I ended up in London today so had a walk around the different sites, I thought the setup at MA was quite impressive, it'll be interesting to see what develops next.

And of all the ER symbols I saw around London, I was surprised to see that the plaque on the four horses of the apocalypse at Piccadilly Circus has two etched on it, from 1992.
 
Police cleared one of the blocks at parliament sq this evening. It took 2 hours to cut 7 people our of lock on tubes
And now everyone back again

People in Lock ons on the floor, circled by police, circled by about 5 circles of people include ing passers by. Singing.

It was a very ritualistic arest.

It did me in and my daughter's made me go back to hers for sleep

Inductions today were packed
 
Miss-Shelf said:
Police cleared one of the blocks at parliament sq this evening. It took 2 hours to cut 7 people our of lock on tubes
And now everyone back again

People in Lock ons on the floor, circled by police, circled by about 5 circles of people include ing passers by. Singing.

It was a very ritualistic arest.

It did me in and my daughter's made me go back to hers for sleep

Inductions today were packed
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Big hugs and love to you M. Self care, re-energise etc. :cool:
 
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