Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[Tashyboy]

I should of taken me dad for his memory test results last Monday to find out if he has dementia/ alziehmers etc. he caught covid last weekend so that was changed to tomorrow. He still has COVID. So looks like being a telephone consultatio.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I should of taken me dad for his memory test results last Monday to find out if he has dementia/ alziehmers etc. he caught covid last weekend so that was changed to tomorrow. He still has COVID. So looks like being a telephone consultatio.

I thought you were going to say you forgot...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Good points, well made. I think the previous pages of debate were sparked from the usual, not so subtle, digs at government policy..."well they don't say I can't".

Fortunately I know that it was not I making or having any such dig…and so I can breath and sleep easy knowing that no infraction might be coming my way ??

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Worrying number of my regular PP's now feeling rough and a few have tested positive. Had close contact last weekend and on Wednesday with several and so tested this morning when I found out. All negative and got a PCR to do in work tomorrow.

 

[Billysboots]

I have not been a police officer. However, when police officers stop a vehicle do they jump in the car with the driver, windows closed and stay there for a long enough time to pick up an potential infectious disease. Or, do they stand outside in the open air

Police have got into people's cars

In thirty years I never, ever got into a member of the public’s car to deal with them during a stop/check. Any police officer who does that wants their bumps feeling. I either dealt with people at the roadside, in the event the stop was minor or, more often than not, they were sat in the back of my car.

 

[Foxholer]

In thirty years I never, ever got into a member of the public’s car to deal with them during a stop/check. Any police officer who does that wants their bumps feeling. I either dealt with people at the roadside, in the event the stop was minor or, more often than not, they were sat in the back of my car.

Which 'achieves' the same thing as what the posts you quoted were suggesting/querying.

 

[PNWokingham]

In thirty years I never, ever got into a member of the public’s car to deal with them during a stop/check. Any police officer who does that wants their bumps feeling. I either dealt with people at the roadside, in the event the stop was minor or, more often than not, they were sat in the back of my car.

Billy, but it could happen, maybe there is a new scenario that has not happened in the previous 30 years!

 

[Billysboots]

Which 'achieves' the same thing as what the posts you quoted were suggesting/querying.

I know. I was answering a direct question.

EDIT: Stop/checks continued throughout the height of the pandemic, with measures taken to mitigate the risk of infection. So the point is a moot.

 

[SocketRocket]

In thirty years I never, ever got into a member of the public’s car to deal with them during a stop/check. Any police officer who does that wants their bumps feeling. I either dealt with people at the roadside, in the event the stop was minor or, more often than not, they were sat in the back of my car.

I have been stopped by a police officer on the motorway for a fairly minor matter. He got out of his car and came and sat in my passenger seat while explaining to me what he considered I had done wrong. I have also seen TV programs of Traffic Police taking motorists into their car and showing them video footage of their driving. I spoke to a neighbour today who's is a recently retired long service Traffic Officer from Hampshire and he confirmed they did this. Maybe he needs his bumps feeling ?
Sitting in the back of your car wouldn't be a good place either.

Anyhow, this discussion is becoming rather cyclic now and neither of us are going to change our view so probably best to leave it at that.

 

[SocketRocket]

Billy, but it could happen, maybe there is a new scenario that has not happened in the previous 30 years!

Are you capable of a discussion void of exaggeration and sarcasm?

 

[hovis]

Blimey. So you have covid and you happen to break down or get pulled over by the police!!! What are the chances. In 22 years of driving I've never broken down or been pulled by police. Even if you do you simply say " hello Mr police officer, you should know I have covid" ?‍.
Some of you lot are really reaching with these covid "what ifs'"

 

[Billysboots]

I have been stopped by a police officer on the motorway for a fairly minor matter. He got out of his car and came and sat in my passenger seat while explaining to me what he considered I had done wrong. I have also seen TV programs of Traffic Police taking motorists into their car and showing them video footage of their driving. I spoke to a neighbour today who's is a recently retired long service Traffic Officer from Hampshire and he confirmed they did this. Maybe he needs his bumps feeling ?
Sitting in the back of your car wouldn't be a good place either.

Anyhow, this discussion is becoming rather cyclic now and neither of us are going to change our view so probably best to leave it at that.

Yes, he does. I shouldn’t need to spell it out to an intelligent individual, but no police officer with a modicum of common sense is routinely going to sit in the passenger seat of a car when they have no clue how the driver is going to respond to being stopped. The driver could be drunk, wanted for serious offences, the car could be on false plates/stolen - you name it, there could be any number of reasons that driver would drive off, at speed, with the cop who needs their bumps feeling either in the passenger seat or, worse still, half in the car.

But, hey, I was only a Traffic cop involved in motorway policing for twenty years. What do I know? ?

 

[PJ87]

Yes, he does. I shouldn’t need to spell it out to an intelligent individual, but no police officer with a modicum of common sense is routinely going to sit in the passenger seat of a car when they have no clue how the driver is going to respond to being stopped. The driver could be drunk, wanted for serious offences, the car could be on false plates/stolen - you name it, there could be any number of reasons that driver would drive off, at speed, with the cop who needs their bumps feeling either in the passenger seat or, worse still, half in the car.

But, hey, I was only a Traffic cop involved in motorway policing for twenty years. What do I know? ?

Maybe he fancied him and he wasn't a police officer ...

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Yes, he does. I shouldn’t need to spell it out to an intelligent individual, but no police officer with a modicum of common sense is routinely going to sit in the passenger seat of a car when they have no clue how the driver is going to respond to being stopped. The driver could be drunk, wanted for serious offences, the car could be on false plates/stolen - you name it, there could be any number of reasons that driver would drive off, at speed, with the cop who needs their bumps feeling either in the passenger seat or, worse still, half in the car.

But, hey, I was only a Traffic cop involved in motorway policing for twenty years. What do I know? ?

Really, it’s never been mentioned before ?

 

[Swango1980]

Which 'achieves' the same thing as what the posts you quoted were suggesting/querying.

So, whether a police officer either gets into the persons car, or gets the person to sit in the police car, what sort of reasons would this be for? No tax or insurance? Speeding? Suspected drunk driving? Damaged vehicle? Stolen vehicle?

Can we assume that the OP, who wondered about playing golf, will unlikely get pulled over for any of these offences? And, if he does, he has more to be ashamed off than playing golf when getting over Covid.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I have been stopped by a police officer on the motorway for a fairly minor matter. He got out of his car and came and sat in my passenger seat while explaining to me what he considered I had done wrong. I have also seen TV programs of Traffic Police taking motorists into their car and showing them video footage of their driving. I spoke to a neighbour today who's is a recently retired long service Traffic Officer from Hampshire and he confirmed they did this. Maybe he needs his bumps feeling ?
Sitting in the back of your car wouldn't be a good place either.

On what police service or training do you base this advice

Anyhow, this discussion is becoming rather cyclic now and neither of us are going to change our view so probably best to leave it at that.

Why do these cyclic discussions always have to end after you've had the last word?

 

[PNWokingham]

Are you capable of a discussion void of exaggeration and sarcasm?

it only gets turned into a fantasy novel when your ridiculous exagerations of any potential dangers come into play after the normal views have been aired

 

[SocketRocket]

it only gets turned into a fantasy novel when your ridiculous exagerations of any potential dangers come into play after the normal views have been aired

So it's a No then.

 

[PNWokingham]

So it's a No then.

time for your coco - i am tired!

 

[SocketRocket]

On what police service or training do you base this advice



Why do these cyclic discussions always have to end after you've had the last word?

Did you read the bit where I was stopped on a motorway? Do I need Police training for that.

Should they end when someone else has the last word.

I've not made any insults or put downs in my posts. I've tried to discuss the subject and support my point of view. In return this has been met with sarcasm, insults and gross exaggeration. I accept fully that some will hold a different point of view and want to explain their reasoning but I can't be responsible for posters who cannot discuss a subject without the need for personal attacks.