what do the police do all day?

[Pickman's model]

we all know that the police have given up pretty much all pretence of investigating vast swathes of crime like mugging, most sexual offences, burglary, phone theft etc. you almost never see them doing what looks like work - they're either driving about or going to or from cafes and kebab shops. what do they actually do all day?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Nicking people that they feel may upset the aristos.

 

[danny la rouge]

Learning the three Rs: racism, rape and reactionism.

 

[Ax^]

chase kids on e scooters into buses

it appear from the morning news

 

[Yossarian]

They're busy with hate crimes, sex crimes, theft, and corruption, and possibly some police work as well

 

[Voley]

I believe noted social commentators Cypress Hill have examined this subject and after extensive research put forward this proposition:

"This pig's steady eatin' donuts
While some motherfuckers out robbin' your home."

Ref: "Pigs", Cypress Hill I, 1991.

 

[weepiper]

It's a busy day, all the raping, racism, bit of light bigotry and before you know it it's hometime.

 

[LDC]

More seriously, there's always a bunch waiting with patients at A&E.

A quick Google shows this... Concern over the time police officers spend at A&E

 

[quimcunx]

More seriously, there's always a bunch waiting with patients at A&E.

A quick Google shows this... Concern over the time police officers spend at A&E

This. they have spent a huge amount of time tracking down a refugee friend of mine, escorting him to, and sitting with him at A&E for mental health assessments the past 6 months. Often very kindly and patiently but also breaking down his door at least twice when the whole point was he wasn't there or turning up at mine to look for him hours after he'd been found and it was me who reported him missing anyway.

e2a most of which wouldn't require the police to do, it's not their specialty, if mental health services and NHS generally, and social work and housing etc weren't so underfunded/such shitshows.

 

[maomao]

They used to have 'working for a better London' written on all their stuff in handwriting font. I remember I first saw it on a police hut thingy next to Seven Sisters station. There were a couple of coppers drinking tea inside and I at first misread it as 'waiting' for a better London. It made more sense that way.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Sit in their cars eating kebabs mostly.

 

[SpookyFrank]

More seriously, there's always a bunch waiting with patients at A&E.

A quick Google shows this... Concern over the time police officers spend at A&E

I mean this is mostly a minor downstream problem arising from the complete shitshow that A&E has turned into.

 

[DotCommunist]

occasionally they break a sweat when eg inconvenient private investigators need murdering in a pub carpark

 

[SpookyFrank]

chase kids on e scooters into buses

it appear from the morning news

Well, even a stopped clock and all that.

 

[skyscraper101]

By the looks of a lot of them, they spend a lot of the time getting sleeve tattoos.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

More seriously, there's always a bunch waiting with patients at A&E.

A quick Google shows this... Concern over the time police officers spend at A&E

Round here it's this and fallout from aggro created by street drinkers and drug users, people who don't like the homeless outside their shop , ASB, and stopping me for a chat when the light was clearly yellow, Officer.

 

[equationgirl]

They spend a lot of time driving round in the early morning hours with the lights and sirens on full blast. Very rarely are there reports of a serious or major incident the following day.

 

[PR1Berske]

Paperwork. What papers, and for what work, I've no idea.

 

[Serge Forward]

 

[Smangus]

Donuts .

 

[Aladdin]

 

[Aladdin]

When I were a choild...I used see a garda walkin on every street. They were there visiible..for all to see.

Now..they're very scarce and you might catch sight of one occasionally in a car with blue lights.

Must be the effect of Global Warming

 

[quimcunx]

I mean this is mostly a minor downstream problem arising from the complete shitshow that A&E has turned into.

This, the police were only needed because what my friend did/does need are not there for him to access when he needs them.

 

[The39thStep]

There are a lot of studies of demand on Police time during 24hr and week long periods that look at 999 crime categories, peak periods by crime, time spent on patrol by foot , policing of night time economies etc , time spent processing prisoners plus of course the staff that work at coroners courts, youth offending, mental health, child protection, adult safeguarding, prolific offender teams etc and of course policing public events. Most forces have the technology to track vehicles and officers by GPS .

Obviously, some officers don't get their priorities right or use their time as efficiently as they should. I remember one time that my car was in the garage and the Chief Super arranged for an officer to drive me home after a meeting at their Divisional HQ. We are about a mile from my house in a traffic jam and on the radio there's a call regarding a burglary and the officer said to me 'I'd better go to that after I have dropped you off at your house'. Felt obliged to say that I'd get out and walk as the burglary to me seemed more important.

 

[xenon]

investigating social media arguments by social fuck ups. You know, families death threatenin each other on Facebook .

 

[A380]

Fuck knows.

 

[Elpenor]

Post on urban75

 

[JimW]

So remember son, see any uppity ethnics, just call 110.

 

[LDC]

I mean this is mostly a minor downstream problem arising from the complete shitshow that A&E has turned into.

Well, yes A&E times mean they end up waiting to be seen and then after waiting treatment then discharge (usually) with the patient, but I was just saying what I see them doing mostly rather than saying it was the main problem.

 

[LDC]

investigating social media arguments by social fuck ups. You know, families death threatenin each other on Facebook .

I used to live right next door (on a terrace so very aware of what was going on) to a absolute nightmare of a person, him and his partner would call the police on each other every week, plus then all sorts of other low level trouble he'd get into. At one point I had a cop almost in tears (of frustration) on my/our doorstep trying to explain to this bloke that this was not a sensible way to carry on. In the end the cop arrested him as the bloke kicked off shouting "racist" and all sorts of other stuff at this cop he'd called on his partner.

A nurse I worked with whose husband was a cop left as he said it was endless soul destroying work managing anti-social behaviour and domestics in some areas.