Miserable Polce Supt Kill-Joy
14/01/10 12:16 Filed in: Personal
Just weeks after a US police officer was (quite correctly) sacked for drawing his weapon in defence during a snowball fight; Oxford police officers find themselves in line for a dressing own for sledging on riot shields.
The footage, shot on Boars Hill in Oxford, shows three police officers from Thames Valley Police having a whale of a time sledging down the hill.
To anybody watching this footage it's only a positive message and humanises the service in ways Police self promotion videos can't. Here are three individuals enjoying the snow.
However, that's not how Supt Andrew Murray sees it. His opinion is that "tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers expence is a very bad idea".
Well, Mr Murray, I've got a message in return for that. Using "police equipment" to assault innocent bystanders* during the G20 protests is a very bad idea. But it didn't stop that happening.
If it was a choice between unprovoked assault resulting in death and tobogganing; I'm going for the later.
Finally, nobody was killed during the escapade. Nobody was injured and it didn't affect the safety of the public. So, really; Supt Andrew Murray get a life.
The footage, shot on Boars Hill in Oxford, shows three police officers from Thames Valley Police having a whale of a time sledging down the hill.
To anybody watching this footage it's only a positive message and humanises the service in ways Police self promotion videos can't. Here are three individuals enjoying the snow.
However, that's not how Supt Andrew Murray sees it. His opinion is that "tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers expence is a very bad idea".
Well, Mr Murray, I've got a message in return for that. Using "police equipment" to assault innocent bystanders* during the G20 protests is a very bad idea. But it didn't stop that happening.
If it was a choice between unprovoked assault resulting in death and tobogganing; I'm going for the later.
Finally, nobody was killed during the escapade. Nobody was injured and it didn't affect the safety of the public. So, really; Supt Andrew Murray get a life.