haha nice rant there, i'm not far from good old MK, loads of the oficers there now ride around on GTs with rockshox darts

"state of the art" comes to mind 

Same here, only ever been told by a Fake, one time a real one was babysitting and I'd jumped off when I saw them coming and he said ''you did the right thing getting off, I personally don't have a problem with you riding on the pavements''
You should have seen the look the fake gave him, she was not happy.

ok, a little off topic but had some dealings with the police last night and they were pretty sorted.

on the way back from the shops, i noticed that there were some oiks hanging around my housemate's mate's car.
cue: them shutting said car door and walking off and me shouting at them. chase ensued but didn't manage to catch the little bastards (i was in my flip-flops which then evolved into my bare feet (kicked FF's off)). cops came round and were nice and polite and stuff. apparently they had the dog out and everything!

so, props to thames valley police! nice guys and they don't like chavs! 

Been thinking about joining the police for a while now. what are the fitness requirements?

Cardio and upper body strength it appears.

Yeh i figured talking people out of thjings could be quite a difficult thing to do.

slightly OT....but the sheer uselessness of the police force is astounding. it may not be their fault but here goes...

Bike gets nicked Monday night from outside train station, under cctv.
I report to Surrey Police on Tuesday.
They pass it onto British Transport Police, as it was on station property, who do precisely nothing.
I give up hope of getting bike back.
Girlfriends brother mentions that a mate is selling a bike. From the description it sounds like my bike. We go check it out it. It is my bike.
Wanting to do it properly, I don't let on that I know its my stolen bike, as kid says he bought it off some scally (probably not true).
Ring Surrey Police, who say its unlikely they can do anything, despite me reporting a stolen bike matching the exact description less than a week previous, now less than mile from where it was nicked.
They say they have to pass it on to BTP, who have yet to do anything at all since they were told, and as they deal with public transport, not retrieving stolen goods, I doubt very much they will.

So, something of mine has been nicked, but by trying to follow the law and get it back properly nothing will happen....excellent. Time to deal with it myself I guess.

I don't know if this is down to red tape or what, but when I have been told off for littering by accident and riding on the pavement, it does seem a little silly. I don't mind being told off for something I shouldn't be doing, but you would expect this to apply to all areas, especially more serious crime. 

Most police do seem pretty alright but as has been said you do get the odd a*se hole. The mention of the fitness etc of the police is what really annoys me as the whole thing has just been lowered to make it easy for the more politically correct people to get in. A mate of mine who works as an officer knows someone who failed the basic tests 3 times, was basically spoon fed the whole way through and was so bad that they took him off the beat and gave him a desk job as they wanted the minorities. My mate failed to get in first time because in the interview 'he didn't make enough of an issue on race'.
Police rant over.
And back to the main topic, thanks to the w*nker policeman who ticketed a mate of mine for riding on the pavement when he dodged out of the designated cycle path bit to avoid a pedestrian!