Don't ask me why -- somehow, I found The Policeman's Blog, and have since followed it.
David Copperfield -- the copper who maintains the blog -- is a police officer formerly from the UK now serving in Canada, where, he has found, to his delight, policing is done EVER so much better. (He actually wrote a book exposing all the idiocy bureaucrats in Britain have forced on the police, and got raked over the coals. That no doubt led to his expatriotism.)
Just lately, he was struck by "the contrast between the way fallen heroes are welcomed back in Canada with how things are done in the UK.
"I just happened to be on duty when I saw what appeared to be a collision ahead: I saw a fire truck with its lights on, but getting closer there was no collision. We spoke to the crew and they told us that the troops had just landed at the airport and were shortly to be escorted by the police back to their base where their families were waiting for them."
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Welcome to the REAL world, my friend.
2 comments:
Grateful citizens make the best citizens.
I love stories like this.
I'm lucky to work with a lot of immigrants, and it's a forever humbling situation; we Canadians whine about this problem or that one, then hear people like this police officer's exclaimations about what a wonderful country we have here... pointing some custom out that we've grown so accustomed to we've long stopped appreciating it ourselves.
It's seeing your everyday world through new eyes, and it shows you that you had really barely seen it at all.
Thanks for the new blog to check out..!
My pleasure, Charles Henry :)
If you read some of the comments on the Policeman's Blog, you'll find a whole lot of jealous fellow officers -- and it's my guess the population of Canada, and its police forces, are due to grow very soon.
And you're absolutely right. I'm grateful to be a citizen of one of the nations that grew out of the tradition of the Magna Charta. Chief among the things I'm grateful for is freedom of speech -- I can rave and froth at the mouth over my own Secretary of the Treasury without threat -- proving, yet again, how vigilant we must all be in the fight against kangaroo courts, wherever they may be.
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