Agree with you Mark , they used to do the same on the A24 dorking road , bendy dual carriage way reduced for a few hundred yards to 50mph with a static camera in the middle , every one would slow down for the camera and then speed up again , but around one blind bend there is a central layby where the police would set up hand held camera's to catch the people who sped up too early , now tell me thats not just purely for financial reasons ,
Yet shortly after when back at home in Worthing after arriving back from holls , when my house had been broken into whilst away, tried to ring late evening on a saturday night to report it , and was told its not a priority and would be dealt with at a later date , tired and incensed i drove to the local station to physically report it , a few huindred yards before the police staion i passed two (meat wagons ) full of police officers easily around 20 all sitting and joking in the vans , obviously waiting for the saturday night mayhem ( this was sleepy Worthing i might add and not Brixton ) on arrival at the police station i was happy to report my incident and explain my frustration over the previous officer saying it wasn't important enough to be a priority , were under manned he replied , pardon i said ive just passed 20 odd coppers sitting on there back sides laughing and joking doing sweet nothing , cant you re deploy one of those , oh there just on call incase was his reply , you can guess the amount of steam coming from my ears , incase of what ....... a crime being committed ........... well ive just had a crime committed on and in my house why cant you attend to that , sir ive told you it will be dealt with , and if you continue to get excited i'll have you removed
After that incident , frustrated and tired i returned home thinking that my long standing view of our trusted police force was well and truly dented , disgusted at the way i had been treated , i have only contempt for their attitudes now , they are after all public servants and paid by us tax payers , dont think i'll ever have a good word to say about them again
regards loz