Sent that to my youngest who lives in the area. She knows all thr locations!A copper recounts weird tales
A copper recounts weird tales
Oooh, that was excellent!A copper recounts weird tales
This made me think of Gene Hunt from Life on Mars. ‘Give me a memorial you sh*t’
Im sure a chief inspector would have been in the ranks a while, so probably took to wearing glasses later in life, and nobodys is going to tell the chief he cant wear glassesThis one is puzzling. A police man in glasses seen since the 60s. I’ve looked it up and it’s only recently they have started taking on people who need glasses. Unless you were ok if your eyesight got worse as you went up the ranks View attachment 37353
TrueIm sure a chief inspector would have been in the ranks a while, so probably took to wearing glasses later in life, and nobodys is going to tell the chief he cant wear glasses
This one is puzzling. A police man in glasses seen since the 60s. I’ve looked it up and it’s only recently they have started taking on people who need glasses. Unless you were ok if your eyesight got worse as you went up the ranks
A lot of paranormal investigators causing trouble.39 Calls Involving "Paranormal Activity" Made to Police in Scotland Since 2019
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed earlier this year with Scottish police for calls involving “paranormal activity” has returned dozens of results, according to a report issued by Police Scotland.
A few simply stated that “paranormal activity” had been reported, while others stated that the callers had claimed to experience strange lights or noises.
Even more bizarrely, one person reported “black creatures coming out of wall," and another was reportedly “haunted by ghost of child.”
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Paranormal police vest? Why am I getting Wellington Paranormal vibes on that one? Not even sure what it means. I’m taking it it’s the American definition of vest. But not sure why they are using that term in Scotland.
That would make sense.I wondered about that one ... Could it be that "vest" was used as operator shorthand for "investigation / investigator" to save space on an entry form? If so, the description might mean something like:
"Caller has problem with investigation / investigator; it's the same as (prior?) police investigation / investigator; caller wants 'Paranormal' (TV crew) brought in instead."
39 Calls Involving "Paranormal Activity" Made to Police in Scotland Since 2019
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed earlier this year with Scottish police for calls involving “paranormal activity” has returned dozens of results, according to a report issued by Police Scotland.
A few simply stated that “paranormal activity” had been reported, while others stated that the callers had claimed to experience strange lights or noises.
Even more bizarrely, one person reported “black creatures coming out of wall," and another was reportedly “haunted by ghost of child.”
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I second this. Andy Gilbert's books are excellent - and very creepy!Not especially impressed with that Scottish FOIA, other than how often so-called paranormal investigators are reported as casting a public nuisance, so maybe it has become a common defence for people engaged in nefarious nighttime activities to claim they were looking for ghosts..?
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Paranormal vest? Not even sure what it means. . But not sure why they are using that term in Scotland.
Police information- Problem with vest, same as Police vests, wants Paranormal on it.
Paranormal police vest? Why am I getting Wellington Paranormal vibes on that one? Not even sure what it means. I’m taking it it’s the American definition of vest. But not sure why they are using that term in Scotland.
That looks to be exactly what they’ve done, a simple keyword search. For the record there has only been one police force in Scotland (the Police Service of Scotland, or ‘Police Scotland’ as they style themselves) since 2013 when the previous eight territorial forces and the Scottish Police Services Authority were all merged. It’s fair to say this didn’t go very well…All l can think is that the various Scottish Forces have simply trawled their computer records for uses of the word “Paranormal”.
I took it to mean that a person or group had got in touch with the police to ask if they would be allowed to wear tactical vests similar to Police Scotland but with ‘PARANORMAL’ written on them instead of ‘POLICE’.
Vest isn’t the same thing in England and USA. In England it’s something you wear under your clothes to keep warm and in USA it’s a waistcoat.Police Scotland officers wear a distinctive yellow hi vis tactical stab vest which they use to carry their equipment on and within, which has the word POLICE displayed on it front and back like so:
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I took it to mean that a person or group had got in touch with the police to ask if they would be allowed to wear tactical vests similar to Police Scotland but with ‘PARANORMAL’ written on them instead of ‘POLICE’. There’s not some special meaning to the word ‘vest’ in the Scottish vernacular, it means the same here as it doesn in England, Ireland, Canada, the USA etc...
That looks to be exactly what they’ve done, a simple keyword search. For the record there has only been one police force in Scotland (the Police Service of Scotland, or ‘Police Scotland’ as they style themselves) since 2013 when the previous eight territorial forces and the Scottish Police Services Authority were all merged. It’s fair to say this didn’t go very well…
“Any person who, not being a constable, wears any article of police uniform in circumstances where it gives him an appearance so nearly resembling that of a member of a police force as to be calculated to deceive shall be guilty of an offence…”
s.90 (2), Police Act 1996
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In the railway industry the orange hi vis waistcoats we all wear have been called ‘vests’ universally ever since they were introduced in the late 1960s - I tend to look at everything through a railwayman’s lens so I didn’t realise until now that the word isn’t used that way more generally. A spot of googling does suggest that the police use it in the same way though - https://www.police-supplies.co.uk/vests-harnesses/police-vests and https://www.copshopuk.com/police-duty-vests for example.Vest isn’t the same thing in England and USA. In England it’s something you wear under your clothes to keep warm and in USA it’s a waistcoat.
Well we often end up following what the Americans do. A bugbear of mine is calling British tv shows seasons.In the railway industry the orange hi vis waistcoats we all wear have been called ‘vests’ universally ever since they were introduced in the late 1960s - I tend to look at everything through a railwayman’s lens so I didn’t realise until now that the word isn’t used that way more generally. A spot of googling does suggest that the police use it in the same way though - https://www.police-supplies.co.uk/vests-harnesses/police-vests and https://www.copshopuk.com/police-duty-vests for example.
Of course in the Scots language the word for a vest is ‘simmet’