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Darth Plod

Police Murder, Policing, Religion, Uh? WTF?
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So that’s why the police love their helmets and lightsabres batons so much – they think they’re bloody Jedi. Jerome Taylor in The Independent:

The force is with the police force

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Haha! You’ve gotta love silly freedom of information requests. Cop shop magazine Police Review put in a load of FOI’s to see whether any forces have Jedi knights in their ranks.

Lo and behold, Strathclyde Police have 10 members of staff who claim to be from the Jedi faith. They were the only force to admit it.

Well, it’s one explanation, I suppose.

Whummm, whummmm!

Terrorism, smerrorism

Policing
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Fancy that. On Tuesday it’s revealed Ian Tomlinson was attacked without provocation minutes before his death, on camera. Wednesday Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick makes a schoolboy error by walking around with documents labelled secret in large friendly letters about a supposed anti-terror operation. Within hours the raid these documents supposedly refered to was put forward and carried out with a great display of force on the part of the police, arresting suspects at gunpoint in front of a library and all that. According to the police, Bob Quick’s blunder meant the police had to bring those raids forward or run the risk of the terrorists getting away or attacking early.

All I know is that the Ian Tomlinson story seems to have disappeared from the frontpages, replaced by yet another terror scare…

It will be interesting to see where Bobby Quick ends up in a few months time when the current excitement has died down.