Police arrest a 104 year old woman

[LouiseCollins28]

Hope this is a reasonable place to share this one. I saw a story on the news this morning about Police (Avon and Somerset I think) arresting a 104 year old lady! Hold the outrage though, because she wanted to experience it and asked for it to happen .

news.sky.com/story/woman-104-arrested-at-care-home-by-police-to-fulfil-bucket-list-wish-11671110

Wanted to share as I think this is a lovely story and she looked so happy to have an exciting day! Good on the Avon and Somerset Police officers for making this happen for her, just brilliant!

Ah, what a lovely thing to do!

Ridiculous.

People will try to claim it's "good PR" for the police, and they're doing something lovely for an elderly lady. I'd rather see them prioritising actual police work, instead of tricks like this, and arresting people for "misgendering".

The police are an absolute joke.

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Bloody hell Bezalelle you are a right barrel of laughs.

So when a police officer arrested a teacher in our primary school playground the children were cheering loudly. They had solved the who dunnit part of their work, which was follow on from a book they had studied in class about solving mysteries.

The children worked in teams and were given clues to work out which of the suspects (all teachers) had been in the area at the time and who had motive.

I suppose the police should have been out solving real crime - not off duty "arresting" a member of staff

@MoBiroBo. Exactly! I read somewhere, possibly in a DM link that these 2 officers, saw this wish list in a local Co-Op and it's on their beat.

Also, one of whom is a Police Community Support Officer ( guessing the clue's in the name) So IMO they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be.

Lastly, the "arresting a teacher" whodunit in your Primary School sounds like absolutely brilliant fun! Again, community engagement officers doing what they are supposed to.

@LouiseCollins28 you should have heard the cheers, it is a large school with 90 children in the year group, every child cheering from year 4. So fab.

The teacher is beloved but very strict and in her 60s. She tried to do the whole little old lady act with the police for fun but they didn't buy it and the children loved every minute. They even put her in a police car and put the lights on.

I hate it when people say the police are an absolute joke. My BIL is one, they are expected to do a lot with very little.

There are so many positives to this! The children get a "positive" first contact with the Police, which has to be good for everyone surely? I mean really, would people rather their offspring first encountered the Police in the school playground aged 4 or at aged 14 being "stopped?!"

I've no experience to base this on, and all the PCs/PCSOs I've ever met have been great at community engagement, but away from that I'm pretty confident that being a Police Officer is bloody hard. So if they get the change to do something a bit different, old lady arrest, school whodunit or whatever once in a while and are a bit happier at work as a result, who loses?

I'm sure some police time is wasted doing unproductive stuff from a "crime stats" POV, but community engagement work should still be a high priority IMO.

Fantastic 😃 Policing is about building community links as much as anything. I can't imagine a better way of doing that.

Sorry, Year 4 not aged 4, but you get the point.

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Yeh.....course they are 🙄