Thursday 28 June 2012

Way out, >this way > old fella

In my latter decade in the police I was occasionally thought of by the ` bright young graduate entry fast trackers to senior officerhood` as being a bit of a relic. 
I mean, on some warrants I'd actually consider the first option as being a covert approach to the building (all exits covered) followed by a Mk.1 knock on the door. You'd be surprised how many folks actually answer a knock on the door or a ring of their doorbell at a reasonable hour and they always looked more shocked to see us than when we took the door off its hinges with a `7 kilo door key`. For some reason, the graduate entry young pretenders always looked disappointed when the former happened. So I felt a certain empathy with the guy in the attached Daily Mail story albeit he deserves his bird.
Nothing like an old fashioned knotted sheet and a full frontal wall scaling to show the youngsters how to do it. (What's the betting some graduate entry suggests he must've had the latest iPhone `Prison Break` App.)
 
 

6 comments:

CI-Roller Dude said...

I used to shock the young coppers when we were looking for somebody and I'd call them up and say:"Hey, would you mind comin' down to the police station so I could talk to you for a few minutes?"

They come. I'd talk. They'd talk. They'd go to jail.

Why make it so hard?

virgil xenophon said...

ONLY the police (or process servers, :) )knock on one's door these days--a dead give-away. LOL!!

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

Always start off doing it the easy way. Entry teams are noisy, can create more problems than they solve, and require a LOT more paperwork. Knocking is the best way to start.

Quartermaster said...

If they don't answer the knock, then 4 turns of det cord will solve almost and locked door problem.

Personally, I'd go for the det cord right off. But, then, I'm a soldier, not a cop, and me likes 'splodey.

Yeah, I'm a "'Splodey dope," but at least I don't bow to Mecca and suicide holds no appeal. Just loud bangs and the earth moving.

Blue Eyes said...

And if you *are* going to put the door in, it's a good idea to make sure it's the right house.

Hogdayafternoon said...

Blue:
Ah,the well worn old phrase is coming back to me, "Good morning sir, we're the SPG, you'll find your front door by the washing line".