Was reading through the missus's police force newspaper last night, read an interesting atricle that did get my back up a little...

 

Was about the case to prosecute some chaps over an artic car transporter that had crap brakes and left the road killing a 78 year old woman in southampton.

 

The whole case took 10,400 man hours of police work, cost 10's of thousands of pounds, invloved several searches of the transport companies premisis and rock solid evidence was found that the two owners of the company had falsified service records for the vehicle in question. (they even admitted to it and pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice)

 

the end result was that the driver got two years for manslaughter, and the two owners got a lesser sentence for perverting justice. Now the article summed up by saying what a huge sucess this was, cant quite see it myself, they tried and failed to prosecute the owners for manslaughter (lets face it, it was thier fault) the poor driver got banged up for trying to hold down a job, how was he to know the brakes were shite.

 

And the sting in the tail is the driver has apparently since killed himself in jail and one of the managers has died of a heart attack inside...!!!!!

 

I just cant see how justice has been served here, cant think of a better outcome but it just doesnt seem right to me...

 

plus there was an article bragging about the new BMW x5 traffic cars.... I thought the police were supposed to be skint?!?!?!?!

:mad:

 

So wrong, especially when you hear of things like this.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3461783.stm

 

How does that justify the same sentance as this? or vice versa

 

& £50K cars :mad: normal departments are skint...

 

Getting tired of Police being run by business mentality :mad: If they *invested* half the amount of time and money into child abuse as they do road traffic offences we'd live in a much better place. But wheres the revenue in that? :( :mad: