Tried to screen grab this but it kind of messed up a bit, so I apologise for that. Appears the news site has some kind of filter thing over it trying to stop me.
The basics of this is that someone was riding a bicycle to work one morning and a police officer stopped them for legal riding. Dont know if this is a fit, will remove if not.
Link to original article: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23406739.southampton-nurse-pcso-stopped-getting-work---letter/
Archived version: https://archive.li/eFVU8
Article text:
I read of the recent scandals of police failures and have to say I really am not surprised.
I would like to share a recent experience.
I work as a nurse at Southampton General and a couple of weeks ago I had been called in on a Sunday morning after a colleague fell sick.
I approached the right turn lane on Winchester Road lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree, the main light went green and there being no traffic so early I turned onto Dale Road.
It was then I realised there was a man standing in the road with his hand outstretched.
As I got closer I saw in the dim light his PCSO labelling on his uniform so I stopped to ask what the problem was.
He insisted I was not allowed to turn off Winchester Road until the filter light came on.
I told him this was nonsense as buses turn like that there all the time.
He then started talking of a £100 fine for ignoring traffic signals so I produced my staff ID card and told him he was stopping me getting on with my job and that I was going to phone 111 right then to complain.
It was then that he said he was “letting me off with words of caution!” and let me go.
I have had no contact from Hampshire police over the matter, who seem to ignore traffic issues in the main, so it was a shock to be stopped for something legal!
If this is the standard of policing we have no hope.
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