Полиция и порядок. Артемьева О.А - 22 стр.

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12. Have you photographed all your valuable ornaments or jewellery?
13. Have you a note of the serial numbers of TV set, radio, camera, etc.?
14. Do you always lock your bicycle when you leave it? Your car
15. Is your car fitted with an anti-theft device?
16. Do you always remove the ignition key when you leave the car?
17. Do you lock the boot and the doors and fasten the windows when you leave the car?
18. Do you remove all valuables before you leave the car?
Text 21. Police Constable Harry Cole
It’s no bed of roses being a police officer in London. When people need help they’re only too happy to call you. But just you
turn up when it doesn’t suit them and what you can get called isn’t fit to print. After a while, however, the experience can become
very printable indeed.
Published recently was a paperback written by a south London copper called “Policeman’s Progress”. Here are some random
quotes, by Police Constable Harry Cole: “It is one of the few occupations left in present day society where a person can arrive for
work... and have no idea what the day”
TANKS GOD YOU’VE ARRIVED will bring. It could be an accident, an armed robbery,
arson or a request for directions. It could be an explosion, a false alarm or a drunk.
“I was asked about holidays, treatment for budgies, wallpapering, social security, conservation, contraception, politics and prison
visits. I was called upon to chastise drunken husbands (occasional success), errant wives (hundred percent failure), wayward kids and
obstinate grandparents”.
“I received anonymous threatening letters (I recognised the writing), anonymous threatening phone calls (I recognised the
voice), and an anonymous cake for my birthday (it was stale)”.
“I was invited to christenings, weddings and divorces (often in that order, particularly with the very young)”.
Could you put up with a calling like ours?
“I rarely completed a Christmas duty without having to report a suicide, usually caused by loneliness”.
“The bodies, dogs, demos, drunks and fights; the villains and the victims; the brutal, the gentle, the cowardly and the brave; the
haters, the lovers and the just plain indifferent... One day I shall have to live without them; it won’t be easy”.
Any police officer in London could tell you a similar story but the question it would raise is the same.
What kind of person measures up to such a job?
It isn’t enough for a man to reach the required minimum height of 172 cm. or for a woman to make 162 cm.
Regardless of your height you’re obviously no good if you don’t have the stature for the job.
This means having a real concern for people. A real sense of fair play and a real sense of humour.
Qualities more valuable, in our view than qualifications.
(If you have a few ‘O’ levels, fine. University degree is no handicap either.
But best of all is a degree of common sense.)
If you’re under 22 you’ll earn £4,956 a year the day you join us.
If you’re older you’ll start at £5,919.
(What’s more you’ll pick up London Allowances of £1,482.)
You’ll also get somewhere to live for free, if you need it.
Or we’ll provide you with a tax-paid Rent Allowance up to £1,457 a year.
Believe us, you’ll earn every penny of your pay.
Violent criminals, nasty accidents and freezing weather will all turn up when you least expect them.
But the reward you get as a human being for handling it all is compensation greater than any pay packet.
Still interested in being a Metropolitan Police Officer? You have to be over 18 for a start.
If we haven’t dimmed your enthusiasm, why not drop round our Careers Information Centre at New Scotland Yard in Victoria
Street?
Or let us know your name, your age and your address and we’ll send you the information you need.

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