Ouch this seems to be the subject of split views this one....

Hotel 21 - do like your style and the story - was brought up with father in Polis as you know and as your probably equally aware....Police always seem to have mates in the force round there houses ( well they did in the olden days lol) so i grew up with lots of Police "Uncles" This was brilliant for me as back then they brought the company car home for tea and i always got to sit in it ( not now i bet!!)

So i do know where your coming from, problem is a lot of people dont interact with the police on a daily basis to see there just "people". Then when they do they invariably have done something wrong so are hit in the pocket, or they are a victim of crime and associate the police as the perputrators of that crime. And yes i have partly done this myself recently with my car theft.

Think really the police need to take all the "serving the people" type slogans off there cars and change it to something like " dont shoot the messenger" As often people to attack them wrongly.

Good story this though and interesting thread....folks lets not make this personal though!!