Here's the sequence of events: (ht to Raedwald) Chap has a flat tyre. Someone thinks he's abandoning the car and calls the police. Old bill, keen to get a nice easy traffic sanction/detection put on the Blues and twos and has a nice high-speed dash to the scene of the crime. Piggy ran over motorist who had the flat tyre, crushing his foot. Cop drives unfortunate motorist to the hospital, where the officer is apparently the model of humble contrition. Piggy later realises that running over a pedestrian might just cost him his licence to drive as fast as he likes, with pretty flashing blue lights on, so he issues a fine for criminal damage to the chap whose foot he's just criminally damaged.

Easier to fine someone else for criminal damage than admit responsibility for an accident. And if you're a copper, you can get away with it. And you wonder why I don't trust the police. But it's not just stories in the daily hate.

Here's my story: In January a chav swung an Iron bar at me because I told him to put the litter he had just dropped on the floor into the bin. He was nicked, because he did so in full view of a PCSO, and I had memorised his number plate. He was eventually cautioned. For dropping litter. When I asked the filth why, they openly blamed the CPS. When I rang the CPS, they informed me that this happens all the time. The police NFA (no further action) the case: as he's been cautioned, there is therefore a sanction detection towards their tractor production target. When the victim rings up asking why the chav is still on the street, rather than getting buggered in the big house where he belongs, blame the inaction on the CPS.

The CPS were never informed of this crime, but are now taking it further. I will keep you updated. Meanwhile I have fired a rocket up the Local DCI, and I'm composing one to the local paper.

The police have become an unaccountable, dishonest law unto themselves. They're obsessed with their pensions and overtime. They're lazy, time serving, petty, arrogant jobsworths.

This will only change when their political masters are elected locally, as Raedwald puts it:

"The shorter the distance between my wallet and plod's pay packet the better; plod must re-learn who employs him and why."

Funnily enough this is Conservative policy.