>>What you should also bear in mind is that a 'grumpy' police man or woman may have worked a 16 hour double shift and during that time might have had to face a loony with a shotgun, tell a mother her teenage son has been killed in a car crash and been smacked in the face by a drunk – plus the usual everyday pressures that all of us have to put up with. No excuse for rudeness or worse, I agree, but hey, they're only human (most of them). <<

Well said theleveller

I support the police. Leave em alone. They have to do a shit job without very often the support of the general public.

>> a 'grumpy' police man or woman<<

Not to mention Grumpy Old Folkies. They are even worse. :-)

Come in Mr Conolly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0joRysAQ84