Peddle Power Police

With the new national police force designed to deliver savings it was nice to see they have started well, bobbies back on bikes!!! In all seriousness this morning as I drove into the office I passed what appeared to have been a very recent and frankly horrific accident. I thought to myself how easily it could have been me, if I had not got stopped at the lights or had been traveling a little quicker on the motorway! The police her just arriving and were closely followed by speeding ambulances and the fire service. The car was in a dreadful condition and the fire fighters were soon setting to work with their cutting equipment to free the passenger.

It made me think of the fragility of life, how in an instant life could be irreparably changed or even ended with no warning and it is a reminder of our own mortality in many ways, for those of you that know me know I have had much disregard for my personal safety and well being over the years, having participated in many extreme sports and pushing my body, ability and courage to the very limits of my endurance, but as I have grown older as disgracefully as possible my idiocy is tempered with those thoughts of mortality... who would have thought it!!!

Our peddling police officers, were in stark contrast to the seriousness of their colleagues in attendance at the accident, this pair attended at an office next to where I was parked and were happy to be photographed, details of Blip in the note book for future reference, a bit of banter a smile and few frames later they mounted up and rode off, their happy demeanor masking the immediacy that could see them called to any nature of incident. Maybe in times to come I will meet them in a courtroom opposites sides of the same system, well if I pass my exams that is!!!!

I doff my hat to the professionalism of these and all officers. for the work they do to protect the public at large from criminality but also for the help and assistance they provide to the most vulnerable in our society, most often this goes unreported and unseen as it is undertaken at the fringes of society out of sight and out of mind but invaluable nonetheless and I for one am thankful for their service