Comment 32013

By frank (registered) | Posted June 23, 2009 at 10:37:23

I think there's a bit of a problem arising in the police force in the past few years and it may be a result of a lack of mentoring or simply because there are a lot of new officers...

This weekend I was driving up the RHCE when 3 officers pulled onto the highway at Greenhill (all of them younger guys) with lights on, blocking all three lanes of traffic and proceeded up the highway at speeds between 20 and 30km/h. There was no accident, no one was speeding, they weren't in the process of pulling someone over they were just being a pain. Needless to say, as soon as the road got to 4 lanes, I passed them slowly, using my signals and continued on my merry way... As I did that, a driver behind me attempted to do the same only to have the officer jerk his car over the line into his lane.

I don't think the attitude is simply a problem with bikes... It's an overall issue and it needs to be addressed. I've also long suspected officers of using lights and sirens to run lights in order to get back to the station in time for lunch or end of shifts.

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