This video has been all over the news.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/18/policeman-filmed-attacking-a-car-put-on-restricted-duties/
When I have been stopped I was only ever asked to leave the car when the officer thought he smelled alcohol, it was lots of aniseed - I hadn't been "drinking" - I was on non alcoholic shorts called "Drivers" which were awful. Officer was polite.
At other times, the officer has left me seated in the car and given me a rollicking for speeding (with added sarcasm - do they have a special course for that?) though luckily no ticket.
Once on being pulled at a drink / drive road block the officer had his normal sniff of the inside of the car and instantly let me go on, saying "mind the prat standing the middle of the road" - his colleague - just out of ear shot taking no account of his own safety!
When the Ex was lit up by an unmarked car late at night (officers wanted to know what she was doing driving around at 3 AM - she was returning from a sick relative) she called the police on 999 and told them an unmarked police car was trying to pull her over. The operator told her to drive to a police station (not local as it was closed at that time). The police car followed her without the lights and an officer came out from the station, again she was asked to provide info but not exit the car. The following officers had absolutely no problem in doing that.
I would be very wary of exiting a car after seeing that video especially as the "pull" seems to have been caused by "computer" error / mistaken identity.
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As has been said so often here, when they stop a car they have no idea who is in it and whether they are a respectable law abiding citizen or a tooled up and drugged up scroat just waiting for a fight with someone.
The Beeb says "officers stopped the vehicle based on information relating to a man who is of interest to police" - it doesn't say what their interest is. I would hazard a guess that 90% of the time their intel if correct and there is reason to stop the car. I don't see that a firm instruction is wrong and I would comply. I sort of feel the bloke "asked for it" by not getting out, and I can imagine that hos refusal to do so rang additional alarm bells for the copper though I can see it's not a very comfortable situation for either party.
Obviously the police come out of it looking bad and the bloke gets the sympathy because that's how it works these days.
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Uniformed officer asks you to provide ID... you don't, and keep the window open just a crack... then he asks you step out of car, and provide paperwork?
What's the problem?
If you want to get stroppy, and get a kicking, that is your problem.
Last edited by: Ian (Cape Town) on Mon 19 Sep 16 at 05:46
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There's not really enough of the clip to say what went on. It just starts half way through. So who knows if he was unreasonable?
But I bet that copper is thinking, car glass is tougher than it looks ;)
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My view is that if the Officer had in fact been acting correctly, he and his colleague would not have been put on restricted duties. As stated the "film" only starts halfway through the incident but there should have been enough there for the Police bosses to determine that their Officer was acting correctly, obviously they didn't!
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Not Sure I Would Have Exited The Car - smokie
