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The police can be your best friend, thanks police in Glanerbrug

Peter King

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This little girl, who is handicapped due to lack of oxygen during birth (wheelchair bound, not able to dress, shower, eat, drink, communicate or care for herself), was the victim of a burglary last week.

Some dip**** stole this young girls television, which she sits in front often when she is not at her day care, handicapping the girl even further.

A group of officers decided to pay part of the cost of a new television for this girl. A local television shop decided to pay the rest of the costs and so this girl has been helped with a brand new TV paid out of the officers own pocked, which again proves there are wonderful police officers everywhere in the world. In fact most police officers are wonderful people or else they would not risk their health and happiness for the well being of the citizens of their town/country.



good job police officers and the shop who also paid part of the cost of the television.
 
And yes, this is how Dutch police uniforms look like.

 
I have had the good fortune to travel to Western Europe many times. I am always impressed with the professional appearance of the female police officers!
 
At least in the U.S., anyone willing to take on such a task is certainly a better person than me.

I can't imagine a more thankless job with more people rooting against you.

Of course, the authority draws some real jerks, too.

I think we have a similar issue with politicians, as very few people of any quality would want to deal with the headaches, but plenty want the clout.

I hope it's better elsewhere, but I fear that means it's just a matter of time.
 

Not to be gun-rights unfriendly, but Dutch police officers do not really have to worry about people being armed when they pull someone over for a traffic violation. That makes officers a lot more relaxed IMHO.
 

Nice story Peter.
 
Here in the US they can also be your worst enemy.........


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Here in the US, it seems that only the bad ones get the recognition...it's a shame really because I know there are many good ones out there...
 
Elvira said:
Here in the US, it seems that only the bad ones get the recognition...it's a shame really because I know there are many good ones out there...
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Good police officers get noticed too, mostly just in local news but your local news is our national news (in a lot of cases) we are a tiny country and when some police officer does something good it gets noticed by national newspapers in a manner that will most likely not happen in the United States.

And when a bad officer does something in the Netherlands it gets a lot more attention than cases like this. As doctor Phil often says, It takes 1,000 ‘atta boys’ to erase one ‘you’re an idiot when raising a child and that is not different in police work, it takes a lot of good police work to undo corruption or maybe even more for a case in which the police kills someone unarmed for no obvious justification. That is just the nature of human beings, we cannot go OK, one good deed cancels out something that comes over as really bad (like "I can't breathe" or shooting someone with their hands up).
 
CHuDWah said:
Thing is, there should be zero such examples.
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That is a pipe dream, with that many officers there will always be an incident. That is statistically impossible to avoid.
 
Peter King said:
That is a pipe dream, with that many officers there will always be an incident. That is statistically impossible to avoid.
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That's why I said "should be", not "will be". Nevertheless, "pipe dream" or not, it's a goal worth pursuing, regardless whether it's attainable.
 
CHuDWah said:
That's why I said "should be", not "will be". Nevertheless, "pipe dream" or not, it's a goal worth pursuing, regardless whether it's attainable.
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You are right, it should be a goal that should be paramount in every police force to achieve. To strive for perfection so to speak so that the constant barrage of negative police stories comes to an end.
 
Another case of the police being your best friend.

The police in Wassenaar was called because the police in Arnhem (other side of the country, yes, a small country so not thousands or many hundreds of miles but still more than 100 miles away) was failing to contact the parents of a young woman that had been given CPR and that was put in intensive care. The police went to the family and when notified the parents were in a state of utter despair after receiving the news. The woman did not have a driving license and the man was so upset that letting him drive was not possible.

So the police officer who went to the home contacted his police station and was given the OK to drive the parents to their child in Arnhem. From the incident room he was given permission to drive with sirens and lights all the way to Arnhem. Luckily the woman was still alive when they arrived. The police officer said he had a very good feeling about what he had done that day.
 

I have an old childhood friend who lives in Wassenaar. I think it is a suburb of The Hague?
I haven't seen him in something like fifty years but I conversed with him a couple of years ago.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
I have an old childhood friend who lives in Wassenaar. I think it is a suburb of The Hague?
I haven't seen him in something like fifty years but I conversed with him a couple of years ago.
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Yup, pretty close to the the Hague, but it is not a suburb, it is a separate town. Where loads of very wealthy people live.
 
Peter King said:
Yup, pretty close to the the Hague, but it is not a suburb, it is a separate town. Where loads of very wealthy people live.
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LOL suburbs are often separate towns, at least in the American definition anyway.
For instance, Los Angeles isn't actually a very large city, if you look at the official borders, but the "Greater Los Angeles Metro Area", which is comprised of literally hundreds of little suburbs, forms what is known as the "TMZ" - - the "thirty mile zone".
(also sometimes referred to as "The Studio Zone")

Film and TV professionals who are expected to travel beyond the TMZ area to work on a shoot are offered extra travel time compensation and sometimes some extra pay, according to their union contracts.

 
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