Hate them all nope
Admirer of there skill set? generally no but there is exceptions.
Hold a view where there is a dire need for some maturity among-st a good number of the one and two tape variety oh yes.

Once watched two RMP come across a wee skirmish in Banja luka metal factory said two stopped in there tracks ran away from the scene of said skirmish only to return minutes later in there shiny white land rover with Blue lights flashing debusing from the vehicle looking very cops on camera Esq they wanted to use thereflashing lights like proper policemen Bless!!!!!!

Originally Posted by MoistVelvet

Perfectly legal, wasn't convicted or arrested but immoral for drinking and driving, never quite got that message, tool

So the RMP are not there to uphold the law they are there to act as self appointed moral guardians instead?

if my Mother in Law was an RMP it would be "morally wrong" and therefore a punishable offence if the person you gave a gift too did not hand write a thank you letter within 3 days that specifically said what it was you'd bought them and how marvellously life changing the gift was.

So an RMP that enforced individual moral values rather than the law would be unworkable wouldn't it.

Originally Posted by MoistVelvet

What because you were drinking and driving? Ok you were under the limit that time, but perhaps next time you would have had a little bit more and then a little bit more the time after that until you ended up killing someone, maybe he was doing you and joe public a favour. But of course it was the RMP's fault that you were being a tool.

Why not just fit him up? He's going to break the law sooner or later so get him off the streets now

Originally Posted by MoistVelvet

What because you were drinking and driving? Ok you were under the limit that time, but perhaps next time you would have had a little bit more and then a little bit more the time after that until you ended up killing someone, maybe he was doing you and joe public a favour. But of course it was the RMP's fault that you were being a tool.

May I ask - Are you a Guardian reader by any chance ?

Originally Posted by MoistVelvet

Perfectly legal, wasn't convicted or arrested but immoral for drinking and driving, never quite got that message, tool

This is the reason for much antipathy towards police of all types. They are employed and empowered to enforce laws, not to act as moral arbiters. If the law isn't being broken it is none of their business and they shouldn't be running around bubbling blokes to their CO.

Originally Posted by Roger_The_Cat

So we are living under Tom Cruise's Minority Report style rules are we? If you might commit a future crime you are fair game then?

XRE_987 said he was within the rules. So he was innocent yet they still reported him. Smacks of some cunt not being able to accept that he hadn't managed to nick him so still stuck the boot in.

I was once stopped by West Mercia police. It was Christmas time so they breathalysed me. Once again I'd already, truthfully, said I had not had a drink. They accepted it and wished me goodnight.

Who is the cunt here. Me? XRE_987, West Mercia plod or the petulant RMPs who didn't get the results they wanted but still had to tell our bosses they'd stopped us?

If you can't see the difference between people having an issue with authority and people being dealt with poorly it's you that has the issue.

Difference is that you hadn't had a drink, he had, therefore fair game to be breath tested. Who knows how ear the limit he was, he was only reported to his unit, no big deal if they can have a quiet word to tell him to wind it in and think on about drinking and driving. Unless of course anyone here thinks it is perfectly ok, no danger whatsoever to have a couple of pints and drive, because of course we can all perfectly judge our alcohol to blood absorption to the mil.

The only problem I have is idiots blaming others for their own mistakes, this RMP did nothing wrong.


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There is a reason the RMP are generally hated! I have found them to be sneaky and underhanded. We all know stuff goes on in the Army, it's like anything, you take your chances, if you skills and drills are crap you will get caught. An example directly involved myself:

Whilst on a 2 year tour of Cyprus (based in Dehekelia) the main square of Ayia Napa was and i believe continues to be out of bounds. All fine and dandy, except anyone with half a brain cell knows, despite it being OOB, with an entire Inf Bn aswell as other Units based in the Garrison lots will go on the piss there and take there chances.

I did and i never got caught (only just), others did. One morning, 3 of us were on our way back in a taxi, the taxi driver turned into the Garrison instead of driving straight up the road to Alexandra Barracks. When i asked him what he was doing as he was going the wrong way, he told us he was taking us to the RMP station. As soon as he stopped to turn at a junction we opened the door and we were conducting E & E untill we managed to get back to camp.

Afterwards, I had heard the Monkey's had some sort of deal going with the local taxi drivers, once they picked up squaddies they would take them to the Police Station. I think thats completely underhanded and sneaky! Whilst in Ayia Napa, many times we saw many of the RMP pissed as farts in the OOB area, they would glady nick you if you were caught, but it's ok for them to do it!

They may enforce Military Law, but that also means they too have to abide by it.

Originally Posted by guzzijon

This is the reason for much antipathy towards police of all types. They are employed and empowered to enforce laws, not to act as moral arbiters. If the law isn't being broken it is none of their business and they shouldn't be running around bubbling blokes to their CO.

You sound like the type of people that complain about black people being stopped and searched, for hoodies being told to take their hoods down. He had a frickin drink, he admitted it for christs sakes. But yeah you are right, those blokes at the airport security should only stop the terrorists, how dare the stop the geezer with a beard and hook for a hand, I mean if he is innocent then they are just being knobbers aren't they?


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Originally Posted by pimpernel

I don't hate the RMP it’s just my experience with them was always adversarial, for some reason they always seemed to think the Jocks were guilty, how stereotypical!

Hide amongst the scousers mate to throw em off the scent

Originally Posted by MoistVelvet

Difference is that you hadn't had a drink, he had, therefore fair game to be breath tested. Who knows how ear the limit he was, he was only reported to his unit, no big deal if they can have a quiet word to tell him to wind it in and think on about drinking and driving. Unless of course anyone here thinks it is perfectly ok, no danger whatsoever to have a couple of pints and drive, because of course we can all perfectly judge our alcohol to blood absorption to the mil.

The only problem I have is idiots blaming others for their own mistakes, this RMP did nothing wrong.


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I've no issue with him or I being breathalysed but once again your morality is clouding the issue

in both our stories we were under the legal limit. Doesn't matter in law how close he was or I was we were under and therefore innocent in law

ok he'd actually had a drink but if he had any sense he will learn from the experience anyway, his unit do not have to be involved. It won't make him learn better

smacks of some RMP having an ego problem