Up until now, we’ve heard of many cases involving citizens that got into trouble for bragging about their automotive “accomplishments” online, but this is the first time that we’ve heard about cops getting probed. An unidentified number of cops have joined the Facebook group “Yes I Had A Polcol” (Polcol being a slang abbreviation for Police Collision) displaying pictures of various accidents that they've been in. Additionally, many of them bragged and joked about crashing cars and hitting pedestrians.
Of course, many users hastily removed their pictures and comments when the story broke out, but not all of them followed. For example, here’s what two members –note however that we can’t be 100% certain whether the posters are cops or not- wrote on the group’s discussion board: (Continued after the jump) Member 1
- I reversed a van down a darkened alley way and knocked a blokes fence down in KG(1 point)
- Knocked a moped off whilst driving into FH yard (not to count cos he fu$%^&d off)
- Knocked a deaf bloke off his bicycle whilst on blues and twos on the offside at stepney green(not to count)
- Vicinity only on the A13 when a car decided to get out my way and another car didnt (not to count)
- Slight rear end shunt at 6mph along Bayswater Rd (2 points)
Member 2
- The day before my response course, took an astra down the side of a wall in Eltham Station car park. = 1 point and a lot of laughs.
- Response for a year, lost the rear of an astra on a call, slid for what seemed like an eternity. Hit railings with the front, then flipped round and took out more railings and a lamp post with the rear. = 3 points 2 month ban. Big slap on the wrists.
- When my ban lifted, approaching a busy cross roads at night, some idiot PCSO had taken all the plastic bollards of a small island before the lights. The street lamps weren't on either, didn't see the island looming until I was 5m away. At 60!! Stripped both offside tyres of the same astra that I'd done two months previous. = 2 points, one for each tyre.
- Needles to say I've had to assume the position in the safer driving skipper's office. If I do anything more in the next 3 years, I'll be a walker for the rest of my career!
Up until now, we’ve heard of many cases involving citizens that got into trouble for bragging about their automotive “accomplishments” online, but this is the first time that we’ve heard about cops getting probed. An unidentified number of cops have joined the Facebook group “Yes I Had A Polcol” (Polcol being a slang abbreviation for Police Collision) displaying pictures of various accidents that they've been in. Additionally, many of them bragged and joked about crashing cars and hitting pedestrians.