Police shoot someone
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Crazy Horse" data-cid="596617" data-time="1468537136">
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<p>What perks are they? Technically we aren't even allowed to accept discounted McDonald's in case it leads to corruption.</p>
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<p>When I worked at KFC any cops that came through got extra everything in thier orders, and at the end of a night shift, we'd call up the cops and say thier order was ready for pick up.</p>
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<p>I did get off a licence breach at about 11pm one night on my way home, wasnt sure if it was my natural charm or the fact I still had my KFC uniform on....probably neither, but not being a knob to cops is always a good starting point I found.</p> -
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<p>When I worked at KFC any cops that came through got extra everything in thier orders, and at the end of a night shift, we'd call up the cops and say thier order was ready for pick up.</p>
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<p>I did get off a licence breach at about 11pm one night on my way home, wasnt sure if it was my natural charm or the fact <strong>I still had my KFC uniform on</strong>....probably neither, but not being a knob to cops is always a good starting point I found.</p>
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<p>I bet you used to fight the bitches off on your way home back in the day.....</p> -
<p>I was driving you plonker! </p>
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<p>But othertimes, yeah mate, was like shooting fish in a barrel, but nothing like this tinder business</p> -
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<p>Jegga I wsan't thinking you were begrudging, I was genuinely curious what perks you were referring to. Holidays homes is a fair enough example, but it sounds like NZ police have more accommodation options than Qld. The options over here are shit.<br><br>
Re the handcuffs - not as sexy as you would think. When you see who we use the handcuffs on at work, and how often they get covered in blood, using them at home is the last thing you want to do!</p>
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<p>My cuffs had had basically every type of bodily fluid on them, and not in a fun way either. I associate handcuffs with the smell of the drunken unwashed, because that's normally who they went on. My wife is in the job too, so thankfully the handcuffs things aren't a fascination for her either or it would be quite incompatible.</p>
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<p>I used to always laugh at the young cops who would more or less open their small talk with a girl in a bar by asking them what they did for work, so that they could tell the girl they were a cop. For some of them, it was about their only trump card. </p>
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<p>We didn't do too badly in terms of discounts/perks. For starters, a frontline cop starts on a far better wage than most people who graduate uni, and all they have to do is a 19 week course. No student loan, no apprenticeship fees. You had a lot of cashed up young guys who had come straight out of school. Plus cops tend to accrue incredible amounts of leave. The obvious flipside of this is that after about 5 years, most who went to uni had screamed past the boys in blue in terms of pay rises and bonuses. That said, a large proportion of my mates hated their job and despised the 40+ hours they spent at work. I generally always enjoyed going to work. </p>
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<p>The Police Association work pretty hard on getting membership discounts. They have over 10,000 members so their bulk buying powers were pretty good. The association homes, dotted all around the country cost $60 per night, and slept about 10 people (20, if you had mongrel mates who didn't mind sleeping on the floor). They also had really good discounts at rental car companies, hirequip, quite a few clothing places, Hell Pizza (one of my mates ordered a pizza using the discount, and inside the box was scrawled in marker pen "We love cops, give us a yell if you're single" with a phone number included). Plus we got dirt cheap entry to movies and other places. </p>
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<p>We were in the same boat as Crazy Horse and got told a few years back we got told we weren't allowed to accept half price McDonalds, Burger King, Kebabs, Subway, Wild Bean Coffees etc because it would lead to "corruption". To be fair, some (a minority of) guys used to really take the piss and actually ask for the discount if it wasn't offered, which kinda ruined it for everyone and opened us up to criticism. In general there were heaps of places who offer stuff if you were on duty buying lunch. </p> -
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<p>My cuffs had had basically every type of bodily fluid on them, and not in a fun way either. I associate handcuffs with the smell of the drunken unwashed, because that's normally who they went on. My wife is in the job too, so thankfully the handcuffs things aren't a fascination for her either or it would be quite incompatible.</p>
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<p>I used to always laugh at the young cops who would more or less open their small talk with a girl in a bar by asking them what they did for work, so that they could tell the girl they were a cop. For some of them, it was about their only trump card. </p>
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<p>We didn't do too badly in terms of discounts/perks.<strong> For starters, a frontline cop starts on a far better wage than most people who graduate uni, and all they have to do is a 19 week course.</strong> No student loan, no apprenticeship fees. You had a lot of cashed up young guys who had come straight out of school. Plus cops tend to accrue incredible amounts of leave. The obvious flipside of this is that after about 5 years, most who went to uni had screamed past the boys in blue in terms of pay rises and bonuses. That said, a large proportion of my mates hated their job and despised the 40+ hours they spent at work. I generally always enjoyed going to work. </p>
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<p>The Police Association work pretty hard on getting membership discounts. They have over 10,000 members so their bulk buying powers were pretty good. The association homes, dotted all around the country cost $60 per night, and slept about 10 people (20, if you had mongrel mates who didn't mind sleeping on the floor). They also had really good discounts at rental car companies, hirequip, quite a few clothing places, Hell Pizza (one of my mates ordered a pizza using the discount, and inside the box was scrawled in marker pen "We love cops, give us a yell if you're single" with a phone number included). Plus we got dirt cheap entry to movies and other places. </p>
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<p>We were in the same boat as Crazy Horse and got told a few years back we got told we weren't allowed to accept half price McDonalds, Burger King, Kebabs, Subway, Wild Bean Coffees etc because it would lead to "corruption". To be fair, some (a minority of) guys used to really take the piss and actually ask for the discount if it wasn't offered, which kinda ruined it for everyone and opened us up to criticism. In general there were heaps of places who offer stuff if you were on duty buying lunch. </p>
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<p>Yeah a lot of my younger Comms colleagues couldn't believe the starting wages, fucken good coin for someone in their early 20s, less so for a 36 year old as I was at the time haha.</p>
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<p>Yeah a lot of my younger Comms colleagues couldn't believe the starting wages, fucken good coin for someone in their early 20s, less so for a 36 year old as I was at the time haha.</p>
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<p>AW, Inspectors would be on six figures wouldn't they ?</p>
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<p>Yeah I think they start at about 110k, but when you think of how long you have to be in to get there, and how many staff they normally have under them, it doesn't really compare to the private sector. Plus all the fun stuff in the job is done at Sergeant level and below...</p>
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<p>That's the problem the Police will always face in recruiting older candidates is that there is only so far that the love of the job, and fulfilling long term dream will take you. I know of guys who basically halved their pay packets to join in their mid 30's but they normally are the exception rather than the norm and can afford to because of partners who earn high salaries or minimal mortgage etc.</p> -
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<p>Yeah I think they start at about 110k, but when you think of how long you have to be in to get there, and how many staff they normally have under them, it doesn't really compare to the private sector. Plus all the fun stuff in the job is done at Sergeant level and below...</p>
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<p>That's the problem the Police will always face in recruiting older candidates is that there is only so far that the love of the job, and fulfilling long term dream will take you.<strong> I know of guys who basically halved their pay packets to join in their mid 30's</strong> but they normally are the exception rather than the norm and can afford to because of partners who earn high salaries or minimal mortgage etc.</p>
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<p>That's more or less what I did in Comms, ex and I did it pretty tough financially for a bit when that happened.....</p>
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<p>I worked with one bloke who I was told went straight from probabtionary Constable to Inspector cos of a law background ? bear in mind this convo occurred at about 6.15am at the start of a shift so I may have that slightly wrong. I kept telling myself that could have been me if I had joined in my early 20s.</p> -
There was a story on tv last night about the guy shot in Hamilton , his mrs was not credible, they also downplayed his involvement in p. They also bought up the shoot to wound rather than kill bullshit a little bit too. I find it hard to believe that the police rock up with guns to a law abiding citizens house and shoot him in cold blood, did I mention he had a loaded sawn off shotgun in his hands when they shot him?
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God awful that show. My brother and his mrs insisted on watching it. That whole narrative of the innocent family man brutally shot down in cold blood by the fascist police was stomach turning. Sure tell the p-heads side of the story but at least ask the odd balanced question..like why did he have a fucken loaded shotgun? I'm fairly certain he hadn't just been out hunting pheasant.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="607868" data-time="1471814864"><p>
See how pimply his mrs was? Sure sign of P use<br>
Yeah I'll take the word of a P user of the NZ Police any day of the week</p></blockquote>
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/82076214/police-shooting-victim-sank-into-addiction'>http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/82076214/police-shooting-victim-sank-into-addiction</a><br><br>
This is at odds with pretty much everything on last nights show. -
Yeah funny how the interview kept out a little bit of information like how his p addiction (no doubt shared with his wonderful upstanding member of society gf) drove a once successful business into the ground.<br>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="607896" data-time="1471821585"><p>I would have expected his parents to be a bit more honest about the business failure etc.<br><br>
I wonder what the response to last night show has been in the wider feral community?</p></blockquote>
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Probably split into 2 camps. Those glad to see the back of him and the goings on at that address, and those who will just grow to hate the local cops even more. -
<p>I watched some of it, got fucked off at the narrative and switched channels. Little wonder the police refused to take any part in that. What a joke. Showing pictures of the P-addict in his younger years and saying he was such a "loving man". Yeah, right...</p>