Author Topic: Police should be able to knock criminals off their bikes.  (Read 1369 times)

Michael Rolls

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Re: Police should be able to knock criminals off their bikes.
« Reply #15 on: Nov 30, 2018, 06:26:07 AM »
In truth it was a rhetorical question.
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Johned

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Re: Police should be able to knock criminals off their bikes.
« Reply #16 on: Nov 30, 2018, 10:21:34 AM »
it won't be long before some scroat claiming unfair injury, with legal aid and a team of unscrupulous lawyers behind him, will bring a test case before the beaks to sue some poor constable, you can betcha life!

Michael Rolls

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Re: Police should be able to knock criminals off their bikes.
« Reply #17 on: Nov 30, 2018, 10:40:00 AM »
Certainly wouldn't surprise me - it's the way our system of 'justice' tends to work
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brian54

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Re: Police should be able to knock criminals off their bikes.
« Reply #18 on: Nov 30, 2018, 08:10:05 PM »
it won't be long before some scroat claiming unfair injury, with legal aid and a team of unscrupulous lawyers behind him, will bring a test case before the beaks to sue some poor constable, you can betcha life!
As long as the officer is acting on the instructions of his employers he will not be personally liable


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Re: Police should be able to knock criminals off their bikes.
« Reply #19 on: Nov 30, 2018, 09:43:28 PM »

I agree that these slimeballs deserve anything that they get, but the officers "only obeying instructions" can be brought into doubt as a defence, if a lawyer manages to imply or prove that unnecessary force was used during their actions.
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