77 years

I got so interested in the police stuff I forgot what the original thread was about, oh yeah , welcome Gotcha, this is a nice place.
 
Hi to christopherpostill. I don't understand why no answer. You asked me what went wrong with my 10 years as a Police Officer! I PM you and said I could take that chapter out of my story for you if you wished! If so, did you want me to post it on here or send it as PM?
And I did not receive an answer!
Perhaps YOU are working in your garden!
Ta Ta.
 
Hello Gotcha


Hope you enjoy your time here with us, age is no barrier and certainly we welcome your opinion and those of other more experienced people who wish to participate in the forums....;)

You tell them young-un's, they have a lot to learn, the problem is most think they have lived an eternity and learn't all they need to know at 21, when in actual fact we have 4 quarters to our lives and they are only in the first quarter....

(Share the knowledge)

For he is wise he who knows he has much to learn
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gotcha said:
Hi to christopherpostill. I don't understand why no answer. You asked me what went wrong with my 10 years as a Police Officer! I PM you and said I could take that chapter out of my story for you if you wished! If so, did you want me to post it on here or send it as PM?
And I did not receive an answer!
Perhaps YOU are working in your garden!
Ta Ta.
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Sorry but i didn't recieve a PM from you?!

I would love to hear about your 10 years as a cop though, please tell me about it :)
 
Sorry to but in, but the reason there was a PM problem was because it was disabled for users with less than 10 posts automatically - I'm enabling it now Gotcha, so you should be able to send one :)
 
Sorry christopherpostill, I am getting so dumb I cannot understand if you want it posted here or on your PM?.Cheerio.
 
gotcha said:
Sorry christopherpostill, I am getting so dumb I cannot understand if you want it posted here or on your PM?.Cheerio.
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please post it here
so the likes of me can get a little understanding of the matter!
thanks
psd99
 
floppybootstomp said:
Nothing wrong with working as old bill, really.

I used to feel the same way, PSD, until I got to know a few coppers.

Only thing wrong is within a week of you working in the Force, you will become instantly cynical and mistrusting. When you deal with the worst elements of society on a regular basis, it's only natural to sometimes despair of human nature.

Good job though, interesting with good pay, although you're exposed to more danger than most.

And it's odd, but even when I speak to a policeman who's off duty, I'm always on my guard. Not that I'm a professional villain or anything, but there are some subjects you just don't talk about with policemen. So, even though you may not realise it, if you're a copper there will be some aspects of alienation if you decide to socialise with 'civillians' and not just with others in 'The Job'.
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That is soo, true. I was talking to a young guy who just beame a cop. Hes 23 and owns his own home and 2 cars and a dog. Maybe not the riches to the rest of you , but damn near paradise-- I could trade off two cars fro one really nice one and a sick computer.
He said thier were some opening and he could pull some strings and as long as I pass my psych test I was in. Evryone is against the idea, My parents, my freinds, my girlfriend(who has bench warrent). So it seems if I take the job I will be a bit ostrisized by freinds.
 
Raje said:
my girlfriend(who has bench warrent).
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Whats that mean?

The UK police force doesn't pay that well really - £20,000 starting wage (maybe $38,000) with a near £2000 pay rise every 2 years. Thats basically how it goes... in the same rank...

Theres nothing wrong with being a cop... if you can't beat em, join em ;)
 
Gotcha... If you are OK posting it here, go for it - i'm sure everyone will be very interested. if you are not comfortable with that then go ahead and chuck it in a PM for me :)

Take care

Chris

P.s. hows the garden coming along?
 
Bench warrent

christopherpostill said:
Whats that mean?

The UK police force doesn't pay that well really - £20,000 starting wage (maybe $38,000) with a near £2000 pay rise every 2 years. Thats basically how it goes... in the same rank...

Theres nothing wrong with being a cop... if you can't beat em, join em ;)
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Sometimes I forget we all speak across continents. In this situation, it was just some traffic violations. In U.S. even for traffic tickets you must appear in court. If you do not apear on your scheduled date a "Bench Warrent" is issued out for you. This basically means your name is posted on a wanted list and any officer may arrest you on site and hold you in custidy(holding cell-house arrest) until a court date is arranged and you appear. I've had one before,not a huge deal if you don't get caught. Lucky for me I was never in the right place for the officer, aprt, job, school- but he did pay a visit to my parents house looking for me. I eventually turned myself in and appeared in court.
 
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