Police sipping lattes every morning in Starbucks in Sainsburys

[krosfyah]

WTF is going on? This has been going on for months. Every morning i walk buy and see between 1 and 5 police cars/vans parked up with between 2 and 12 officers sipping lattes in Starbucks in Sainsburys on DKH.

If they are off duty, shouldn't they be down the nick with the police vehicles handing them over to the morning shift? I'm getting sorely tempted to bowl in and ask them if this is how my taxes are being spent, when they aren't being used to bail out banks that f**ked up the economy.

Anyone else seen this?

[????]

They are practising before they go undercover with the latte-sipping middleclass tossers of SE22

[krosfyah]

LOL

but seriously - has anyone seen this? I thought initially "ok they are off duty, it's their own time, no problem" but the more i think about it, the more i think "if they are off duty, shouldn't the police vehicles be back with the morning squad?"

Something is rotten in Denmark (Hill) and i intend to get to the bottom of it

[xone]

early morning shift on a break?

[Mikecg]

Don't forget the job they do is horrendous and they are entitled to have a cuppa arnt they, they are not machines. Their job is one of if not the toughest in the public sector, and I for one would not begrudge them a quick cuppa before dealing with the terrible things they have to deal with.

[Michael Palaeologus]

"Rozzers drink Lattes"

.. and they are getting younger and shorter.

[krosfyah]

Don't even try and turn this into a police bashing thread. I love the cops. I'm just wondering how on earth so many of them seem to be in Starbucks everyday. If they want a break, no problem, is that's what they are doing? Thats what im trying to understand here! Jesus

[Michael Palaeologus]

Is it the uniform? The truncheons?

[louisiana]

There is a quaint old English tradition called the tea break. While it has long disappeared from swaths of industry and commerce, there are some uniformed branches of public life where it hangs still by a thread. Think of it as akin to encountering morris dancers: admire the costumes, sing along to the sound effects, exchange cordial greetings and go on your merry way with a spring in your step.

[Mikecg]

Obviously if the radios were going into overdrive with armed robberies shootings knife attacks and burglaries and they were all sitting around ignoring it then yeah I'd be pissed off as well.

[krosfyah]

Bit of both.

Seriously, if they are on "break" then great...i am not a cop and don't knwo what a police break comprises of, but if anyone can illuminate me before i head over there tomorrow looking for trouble and mouthing off about taxes going up in warm milky frothe and cinnamon, i would appreciate it as i don't want to see the business end of a policeman's truncheon again if i can help it.

[Mikecg]

Be careful krosfya, you could end up getting fitted up with a crime you didn't commit if they have had a bad start. Don't forget the Birmingham 6.

[Horsebox]

Perhaps they've been rat hunting and are a little thirsty from the chase?

Or maybe they're practicing for the annual Southwark Cops vs Southwark Fireman latte drinking contest?

Or maybe they are simply waiting for a dispatch call, and rather than wait in area X / the nick / driving around for said call, they are waiting in the Sainsburys Starbucks and having a piss-poor coffee whilst they're at it. Perhaps they are trying to build community relations with the old dears and milfs that have time to do their weekly shopping on a weekday morning?

If it bothers you that much contact the borough commander and grass them up - the coffee drinking bastards!

[email protected]

[krosfyah]

Mikecg thanks for the heads up brother. Please write me when i am send down as the East Dulwich 1!

PS please don't send me soap on a rope, even as a joke

[Mikecg]

Poor old Plod the necessary evil bastards.

[krosfyah]

Horsebox Wrote:

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> Perhaps they've been rat hunting and are a little

> thirsty from the chase?

>

> Or maybe they're practicing for the annual

> Southwark Cops vs Southwark Fireman latte drinking

> contest?

>

> Or maybe they are simply waiting for a dispatch

> call, and rather than wait in area X / the nick /

> driving around for said call, they are waiting in

> the Sainsburys Starbucks and having a piss-poor

> coffee whilst they're at it. Perhaps they are

> trying to build community relations with the old

> dears and milfs that have time to do their weekly

> shopping on a weekday morning?

>

> If it bothers you that much contact the borough

> commander and grass them up - the coffee drinking

> bastards!

>

> [email protected]

Thanks for the email address, i have outlined a quick reply, i'm trying to flavour it as a "laid back, ED concerned community member" but im not sure if it's coming off as too "EDF-esque" if you catch my drift.

Dear Shirley

As a concerned tax paying member of East Dulwich, could you please ask members of your constabulary inform me what is the best flavour frappucino on this month? The only reason i ask is i don't have time to go there and try them myself, and your officers seem to be getting through a generous amount of the over priced ice and milk combos, so was hoping you might have some insider info.

PS how is the murder investigation in Barry Rd going?

Thoughts?

[Mikecg]

You would be the east Dulwich 2nd, as the ED 1 has already been nicked for snowballing a rozzer in the face at PRP the other week when the snow came, Game shot if you ask me. I'll get the' Free Krosfyah T shirts printed up.

[Mikecg]

Street plod have nothing to do with Moida, it would now fall to the Moida squad of operation trident. I do know where your coming from with it.

[louisiana]

Would local plods be doing a murder investigation? Or would that be flying-squad or some kind of serious crime unit from Met Towers? I don't know enough about how the polis are organised.

[snorky]

drug dealing, sitting on your arse, mysogony and bullying take it out of the poor old ED plod - what with having no friends outside the tight little world of copperism, they relish the chance to get together in public and show off their uniforms and hardware

[Mikecg]

It's uniforms and jewellery isn't it snorky.

[Ted Max]

"So I promised her I would have the skinny Moccha, yeah, 'cos she's got me lined up for the second fitting for the suit Tuesdee, and I better not have porked out by then, she says. But it don't hit the spot like a double shot Lar-tay with one of them muffins. And Gloria's got her school play laters and I can't not go to that, she doesn't understand I've been up all night, so I need the caffeine and that.

"Heads up lads, incoming, check that out. Jesus. Anyway, Topman, fackin 'ell, have you seen it in there lately? Went in for a suit, right, like when was Burton's yeah? Fackin forget that. Clothes for kids with 26 inch waists and white gym fackin shoes and that. So it was M&S for the new suit and she says let's get it altered after.

"I mean, look at the one there, how did she marry that dweeb. That's a fackin waste. Anyways, I'm getting the suit altered, and she's got me on a diet. Only till after the wedding she says. We're only getting married cos she wants to make it official. But I'm like, if it ain't broke. But it'll be a top do. Davey's doing the music, and we've got her lot doing the food. Curry and that."

[Mikecg]

Ted, Have you been possessed or somefink?.

[Ted Max]

It's not right. It's not how they said it would be. I was trying to have a career, sure, that's why I signed up at Uni, but I thought I might change a few lives as well. These people, they don't want to be changed. We're the enemy and that's it. I'm thinking of packing it in, really. Maybe go back and do that MA. Dave's joined an ad firm and he's on the piss all day, caning it and it's all free. I'm breathing in shite from some poor old sod who's got his a cell for the night, and will be back on the street in the morning. And even if I do get CID, they couldn't give a shit either. It's not what I thought it would be like at all.

Even this coffee's shit.

[Mikecg]

Well I love it, last night I stopped this old bloke in his car and he had a bald tyre nerside front, right so I slapped on a ?60 with 3 point, he said that he's just lost his job and his wife left him, well who's fault's that. I told him the road traffic act doesent allow for sob stories. this coffee's sh!t...