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we’ve had a few genuine cops post over the years; and half the worlds cops/feds lurking openly at various points; although cops posting was more common a decade ago when this site was openly used to advertise unlicensed music events.

They would openly state their constabulary details and contact info and use one of the various IP addresses which are officially allocated to the govt (and can be easily identified as such) as they knew that trolls might also try and pose as cops for mischief making purposes; and would simply say “these events are unlicensed, don’t advertise them so blatantly online or we might have to do something about it”. To be fair they had been turning a blind eye to the events for 5 years previously!

Most of the “spying” on here is done by the UK’s BBC at Caversham; they only pass info to NCA / GCHQ if they see something particularly bad on here (like evidence of major harddrugs dealing/bullying/abuse) which the mods do their best to keep away from this community.

There is very little cops can now get from this site via undercover means. Perhaps a bit of evidence a piddling amount of hard drugs is being sold amongst desparate addicts in some countries or that some vulnerable people are turning to various forms of sex work; but they should be aware of that anyway and dealing with it via “boots on the ground”; old fashioned police work combined with working alongside health and social care authorities. Thats what we pay our taxes for after all..

TBH anything cops see on here is light entertainment compared to the real life shit they have to deal with including that stirred up by other online social networks.

During the 90s/2000s I actually lived down the road from BBC Caversham and knew half the engineers in there and we’d often chat about stuff we’d heard on our radio scanners (you could listen into cops back then and half the neighbourhoods cordless phones and until 2000 many mobile phones) – although the cops didn’t like it did mean folk who could listen did have some respect for cops as you heard all the incidents they had to deal with (not just what is on the news); there was often harsh stuff like bad road collisions and violence of all kinds (sometimes involving folk you knew).

TVP and Hantspol have to be fair cleaned up their act loads; they even struck out my drugs cautions because of the flawed info on my intelligence file and I think they didn’t fill in all the paperwork correctly risking me getting mixed up with other people with the same name.

Although cops do have encrypted digital comms and a lot more surveillance / capabiliities than before their own intelligence gathering (at least in the UK and Europe) is showing that domestic violence and dangerous road use are far more of a threat to society than most recreational drug use….

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@tryptameanie 972632 wrote:

GL you list names for police when wearing that certain distinctive helmet bur neglected to mention by far the most useful and descriptive of the pair.

Tithead.

not sure if you’ve ever seen Hampshire constabulary in action (as they are the neighbouring force to TVP me and my mates encountered them fairly often; they once banned me from Basingstoke (no great loss TBH) – for some reason their force crest is way larger than all others in England making their traditional headgear comically large by todays standards :laugh_at:

@EPICLULZ 973067 wrote:

I always thought the tall helmet was meant to make the constable look taller and more intimidating. I find them quite comical. Good place to hide some drugs though.

that was the original intention; it was derived from military/official headgear worn by the British during the Empire days.

There was until the 1980s a minimum height requirement to join the UK Police; until London got invaded by Hong Kong Triads.

it had to be abandoned as unsurprisingly most of Hong Kong CID are around 1,6 to 1,7 metres tall and if there were any British Chinese officers anywhere in UK they were in Northern constabularies and originally from Northern China where folk are taller.

A few years ago my mum was watching telly and there was some ITV reality show about real time crime, they showed a Welsh Chinese policeman wearing the “POLICE/HEDDLU” bilingual hi vis uniform flooring an aggresive drunk (about twice his size) in the middle of Swansea with a perfect karate kick. I said to her “that is an example of British multiculturalism at its finest :laugh_at: “