Dial 111 AND GET A TAXI ????

[pipeman]

Sound like we should run a poll what you rekco oh sorry reckon?

[pipeman]

Need someone neutral to do it though

[pipeman]

Someone please step up and be the ginnypig anyone

[scumdog]

Someone please step up and be the ginnypig anyone

What's a 'ginnypig', are you taking the piss out of cops again eh?

[badlieutenant]

What's a 'ginnypig', are you taking the piss out of cops again eh?

ROFL. that made me laugh soo hard, is that an alcoholic domestic animal ? what the hell are you packing there pipma.......oh

[scumdog]

ROFL. that made me laugh soo hard, is that an alcoholic domestic animal ? what the hell are you packing there pipma.......oh

If you can figure it out then you're ahead of pipeman and myself!!

[2_SL0]

Spud, Im sure your a perfectly nice chap in real life, but unfortunalty in here (at least to me ) your opinions and thoughts come across very strong and arrogant.
I donot know you from a bar of soap. You seem to answer with passion and almost anger. Directed at anyone who dares question your opinion, this is a shame I believe that it is not how you intend for your answers to look. I have never said I had the answers I just feel things could be done alot better. Too many mistakes keep popping up in the news etc. I pay little attention as I find they are just been sensationalised. But I feel of a lot of people do pay attention. Which gives the guys in blue a bad rep. As for your comments regarding my knowledge of the comms center, well it appeared to be directed entirely at me, I just found it strange as you dont know me from a bar of soap either. Well Im going back to enjoying the more main stream topics of BIKES, I have said all I have to say on the matter in here, we are just going in circles.

[T.I.E]

someone is probably dead. the police comms stuffed up. :confused2

police choose to do that job. it is their choice to do so. it is apart of their job to pick up pieces, otherwise don't do it. it's simple. you don't like it get out. so stop acting like heros. you have a choice.

but i'm glad that they are there, and someone has too do it as i am not doing it. if it wasn't for you then who would. thanks guys.

i have read all the replys, and we all are hurting. and it sucks. such a simple mistake. and it's wrong.

as public have we been out to have a look for her? lets help, there are so many of us.

don't have to help the police, but lets help the family.

i am a member of the public.

[rodgerd]

OK, what is your understanding of police training? What is your opinion based on?

Knowing a few people who've gone through/are going through police college. It seems like a fairly short course, considering policehave to have skills in self defence, conducting interviews, procedure, law, first aid...

[Hoon]

I'm with Spud on this one. However one thing I've learnt is that arguing on the internet is a waste of time.
I probably share the same views as many others that remain silent but my opinion is that the Police did nothing wrong, sure they might have fucked up the 111 call but I would've done the same thing in their situation. If a drunk dials 111 for a lift home, gets told to piss off and then gets killed later hitching along the motorway are the cops really to blame??

No disrespect but it sounds like Asher had a few screws loose. She had it made when that couple took her in but she took off instead. Any competent person can find their way to safety with a cellphone but she managed to lose this, most her clothes and her marbles along the way.

The Police can't be held responsible for this and I would hate to see a precedence set where cops are obliged to send a Police car to every stranded drunk that dials 111. How is that going it improve burglary and car break-in response times that many of you complain about?? Sure the Police must accept some blame but so should many others like Asher herself, the guy that took her to Piha, the health system, the Taxi dispatcher and the taxi driver. If ANY one of those failures were prevented then this situation wouldn't have arisen in the first place.

Well thats my opinion anyway........

[Blakamin]

I'm with Spud on this one. However one thing I've learnt is that arguing on the internet is a waste of time.
I probably share the same views as many others that remain silent but my opinion is that the Police did nothing wrong, sure they might have fucked up the 111 call but I would've done the same thing in their situation. If a drunk dials 111 for a lift home, gets told to piss off and then gets killed later hitching along the motorway are the cops really to blame??

No disrespect but it sounds like Asher had a few screws loose. She had it made when that couple took her in but she took off instead. Any competent person can find their way to safety with a cellphone but she managed to lose this, most her clothes and her marbles along the way.

The Police can't be held responsible for this and I would hate to see a precedence set where cops are obliged to send a Police car to every stranded drunk that dials 111. How is that going it improve burglary and car break-in response times that many of you complain about?? Sure the Police must accept some blame but so should many others like Asher herself, the guy that took her to Piha, the health system, the Taxi dispatcher and the taxi driver. If ANY one of those failures were prevented then this situation wouldn't have arisen in the first place.

Well thats my opinion anyway........

What he said^^^^

[Kickaha]

Too many mistakes keep popping up in the news etc. I pay little attention as I find they are just been sensationalised. But I feel of a lot of people do pay attention. Which gives the guys in blue a bad rep.

Thats because they only publish the mistakes that will see the newspapers sell a few more copies and good news isn't as interesting and is more forgettable.

Every time something goes wrong the police can be nailed for it's open slather on them,but where are all these people saying what a top job the police are doing when they bust a crime ring or intercept a big drug shipment why are they all so silent?

[marty]

All i can say is, glad shes dead. When these retards waste police time, innocent people pay with their lifes.

so what you're saying is....if Ms Asher was a bi polar police resource-wasting retard it would be ok that the police called her a taxi?

[marty]

how do we know that she wasn't? lou probably does....

[spudchucka]

Spud, Im sure your a perfectly nice chap in real life, but unfortunalty in here (at least to me ) your opinions and thoughts come across very strong and arrogant.
I donot know you from a bar of soap. You seem to answer with passion and almost anger. Directed at anyone who dares question your opinion, this is a shame I believe that it is not how you intend for your answers to look. I have never said I had the answers I just feel things could be done alot better. Too many mistakes keep popping up in the news etc. I pay little attention as I find they are just been sensationalised. But I feel of a lot of people do pay attention. Which gives the guys in blue a bad rep. As for your comments regarding my knowledge of the comms center, well it appeared to be directed entirely at me, I just found it strange as you dont know me from a bar of soap either. Well Im going back to enjoying the more main stream topics of BIKES, I have said all I have to say on the matter in here, we are just going in circles.

If being blunt and to the point is arrogant then I'm guilty as charged. I'm not angry but if people want to express a strong opinion on something then I'll ask how they can qualify that opinion. If you have some relevant experience in the are then your opinion may be justified. If your opinion is based on the latest 6 o'clock news or 20/20 report and you have no actual experience yourself then I'm afraid your opinion isn't worth as much as it would be if you could show first hand experience that backed up your opinion. If you have first hand experience with police comms centres I'd like to know what it is.

As for the topic not being about bikes, I've said it before so I'll say it again, it isn't me that keeps starting these "lets all handg shit on the cops" threads so don't blame me if you are sick of reading them. However as long as the likes of Lou keep starting this shit I'll keep making people aware of the alternative view point. Don't like, don't read it.