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AlanTH:
Safer riding in a car than walking the beat. Not a job I could or would do.
AlanTH.

Smiffy:
Can't remember the last time I saw a "Bobby on the beat". There seem to be more police cars than coppers these days.

AlanTH:
Not quite that long ago Castle 261. Probably around the late 60s as I started driving for Vokes in 1967 I think.
AlanTH.

castle261:
AlanTH, would that time be in the late 1940`s or 1950`s. The policeman that stayed with us, later
got transfered to a village beat. He came back to see us, from time to time & said `I dont like
this village beat, sooner be back here `. He was a Kent man, came from near Hythe.
One time six policemen, decided to travel to London on their motor bikes, Our policeman said to me
`come on the back with me `. I did, & near Eltham, a tram had stopped, the six, decided to pass
the tram on the near side, as the passengers finished boading. The policeman on duty, stop us.
Taking out his notebook, he was going to charge them. `We are in the mob `showing their police
cards. He put his notebook away, and they all started to chat. --  8)


It was illegal to pass a stationary tram, on the near side.

AlanTH:
Coppers wouldn't dare patrol on their own these days. I got to know quite a few when cab driving in the towns and one was a bloke by the name of Dicky Bird. Whether Dicky was his actual name or not I don't know. :)
Good copper, stopped me a couple of times for things like speeding but just gave me a bit of a talking to. I believe he was taken off the motor bikes for stopping a senior cop for crossing a STOP sign with out stopping.
I saw him nut a yob on the Town Hall rank one night when he'd stopped to try and control the rowdy behaviour. Yobs nose didn't look too good after being flattened with a crash helmet.
Last time I saw him he was on his own around the Chatham Station and Ordnance Street area. Top bloke.
AlanTH.

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