Rte 7.30 Customs

i thought it was good, the 30 min flew by. The programme was very fast paced, hopping between locations and situations.

I'd prefer if it was slightly slower paced, and showed more of each situation, and possibly make it 45-60 min long

civdef wrote: »

The issue of walterish behaviour is always one that is likely to come up on a forum like this, and it's tough to moderate. Where a poster makes false claims about being a member of any particular organisation, this is likely to result in a ban as a breach of forum charter. The best approach to people prating knowingly about stuff they don't know a thing about is for other posters to challenge this clearly in response - as long as it is done civilly, this is entirely within the spirit of the forum.

The next time I hear someone mention "walterish" behaviour at work i'll know he/she has been on here. Is there a masonic type signal we should use?;)

On a slightly more serious topic (only slightly, though), a few of the posters on this forum are giving the impression of having first-hand knowledge of a particular service. Some appear to have an encyclopedic knowledge of every service. I trust most people to understand that the vast majority of posts here are individual points of view. However, some people will take "walterisms" as fact.
While walters might be enthusiastic, they must remember that while it's often no more than a hobby for them, it's a career for some of us. Our managers monitor these sites closely and it won't do us any good to be associated with Tackleberry types who give the impression that all cops here are obsessed with sig-glock-mp56.8twin-cam-tazers and we're all lockemupandthrowawaythekey barstool solicitors.

Karlitosway1978 wrote: »

Google is better.

I once changed the Wiki page about the Gardai too say we were superpowered bio-engineered ultimate police officers who have to swim to America wearing a 1 ton pack and wrestle a shark during training and it stayed like that for over a day

You [EMAIL="b@*%x"]b@*%x[/EMAIL].
I practised that.

Karlitosway1978 wrote: »

Google is better.

I once changed the Wiki page about the Gardai too say we were superpowered bio-engineered ultimate police officers who have to swim to America wearing a 1 ton pack and wrestle a shark during training and it stayed like that for over a day

That was the old training system.. the new one is a lot easier

Exactly maglite, that was a balls up by the former head of airport customs. Now the vehicle is just used as the "ramp car" basically doing patrols of the airport, checking light aircraft and the likes. Very seldom leaves airport property

Granted they should have them for traffic stops and the likes

metman wrote: »

Its a strange setup but even here Customs don't get to use blue lights.

Kilo and Lima units (serious organised counter-smuggling HM Customs units) are not authorised to use blue lights but at the same time are trained by police to drive as advanced drivers. So what happens is Customs units pursue bandit cars without authorisation of local police, which often winds up in a bizarre situation wherein you have customs units getting pursued by police intercept units.

For those seriously interested in Customs. Do a search on Amazon for Kilo 17. Interesting account of an Officer working on Customs based in Central London.

Much like On the beat is not well recieved by gadai for its inaccurcies, kilo 17 and lima 3 are not recived by customs officers, for its inaccrucies.

Metman i'm proberably wrong on this but i do think there is a small part of the rta in the uk which states customs may use blues when investigating serious crime. Ive hear this somewhere and cant remember where, will go looking tho.

In the mean time can you confim or deny this please

:P