Disptaches - Undercover Copper Anyone watch this? shocked wasn't the word. You kinda expect cops to be normal people, and do daft stuff while at work, like play cricket in the custody suite, but some of the rest of the stuff was down right shocking, the sexism, dereliction of duty and other stuff i really wasn't expecting. and this was just 1 police station in 1 county! (particulary relevant to me as i went to Uni in Leciester to recognised lots of the place and have even been in that police station as part of an ID Parade* * before anyone says owt, i was a skint student, and you go paid a tenner for being an 'extra' in a police line up... the worst bit i had to step forward and say "gimme your bag" - but there's a 1 way mirror in front of yourself and we were all cracking up laughing!
Re: Disptaches - Undercover Copper I forgot it was on but watched one last year about racism in the police force and that was proper shocking!
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I was slightly dissapointed by the programme. I was planning on applying in the summer. The whole playing cards thing and watching dvds didn't really bother me. The story about the guy who drove on after seeing someone he thought was a bout to pass out, just to watch an England game was shocking. All in all, I didn't see too much that you wouldn't expect from humans at work.
some stuff you'd expect, like playing cricket in the station, sending newbies for takeaways but i was dissapointed by the sexism stuff and the attitudes towards rape. Also, the 'hide and seek in cop cars' was a bit much (if very funny) cause the hiders wouldn't move from wherever they were hidden till they were found. it's like them ignoring the 999 calls...
1 female copper said she wouldn't report her OWN rape if it happened to her cause she knows how it would be handled. Another case, the investigating decetive hadn't even bothered to investigate her allegation, no seen of crimes officers sent, nothing - or the attitude was "leave it up to them if they want to report it" The sexism stuff, senior officers tell them to bring porn in to watch on the DVD in the staff room, not wanting females on the streets at kick-out time - just sounded like a proper 'boys club' i just didn't realise attitudes like that were still around in a public body like the police. i work in a fairly public body and it's the total opposite to that, they're so shit hot on all kinds of discrimination
It was bad but l was expecting it to alot worse the way John Snow hammered the police chief on C4 news earlier this week! Shocking but l wouldnt have thought it was a representive of the force across the country
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The stuff about kick out time personally thought was ok. At the end of the day, it's not sexist to not want a female officer to be invloved in loads of kick off, if it's avoidable. In my opinon Personally, if I was the husband or boyfriend of a female officer who had been badly injured in such a situation, and had found out that there was a choice between a male officer dealing with it or her, but he goes to deal with something easy, because of an equality issue, I'd be pretty fucking angry that she was put in a situation that it wasn't essential for her to be in. Obviously there are situations where it's unavoidable, but where it is avoidable, why put anyone in a dangerous situation that you don't have to? Agreed it's quite an old fashioned attitude, but I wouldn't have said it was out an out sexism. Like the guy actually said, he shy's away from dealing with rape victims because he find's it hard to know how to handle it and if there's a female officer available, he'd rather they dealt with it, becuase generally women are much better at empathising with people than men, so the job the female officer will do would be much better than the male officer could. To me it's in no way saying that men are better than women. All through nature male and females have different roles, so why is it so unacceptable for us as human's to have differing roles too? Each is just as important to the whole picture. More worrying to me was the disregarding of 999 calls, hide and seek, and the rape stuff, think the attitude they have toward domestic rape was disgraceful, and couldn't believe it when the cliche "well if they're wearing short skirts" comment came out. Absolutely shocking.
i agree to an extent, but women also fight and cause agro so could equally be needed. he made a valid point that i agreed with and have no problem with, it makes much more sense for a female officer to deal with such sensitive topics that was definately the most worrying side of things. Someone said "oh, thats only 1 station, it doesn't reflect ALL stations" - well, why not? i'm sure there's similar attitudes in ALL police forces. The Police have a real hard job and a thankless one at time, but these attitudes and incidents do nothing for how the greater public see them
