To think its a perfectly acceptable use of police money to allow police to play music at work

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I am quite happy for police to listen to the radio during their coffee break. I feel that Performing Right Society are being greedy making employers pay to listen to music at work. Its not as if the police are an entertainment venue. I can see plenty of circumstances where it might be appriopate to play music.

For example if you had a rape victim waiting to be interviewed then it might be useful to play their favourite music or film to try and help put them at ease.

When I was six years old I got seperated from my parents in Hyde park after the fireworks to celebrate the marriage of Diana and Charles. (I wasn't a crime victim, just a lost child) The police picked me up, took me to their station and they played my favourite music. Was this really such a waste of public money?

Yanbu at all

Yanbu

YABU to think the PRS are greedy - they just collect fees for the artists, but YANBU to object to the police spending money on music.

"YABU to think the PRS are greedy - they just collect fees for the artists"

The artists get paid when radio stations play their music. The artists get paid when someone buys a CD/ DVD. I think its reasonable to PRS to collect fees for a public venue, but the inside of a police station is not public venue. Certainly the staffroom, or rape interview suite, prison cells are not private.

I don't have much recollection of being in a police station as I was six at the time. All I remember is the police were very nice to me. They played my favourite music in the car and they did offer me somewhere to sleep until my parents were found. (I don't think it was the cells either as the bed was comfortable.) Certainly I was in a private part of the police station.

Lots of us had the radio on in our university research labs.
Agreed music stations in big shared labs and I put radio 4 on when on my own.

Kept us all sane. Sometimes we needed quiet to read, plan, count things and analyse results, but there was an awful lot of routine setting up equipment, waiting for results and stripping equipment down and washing up.

If music in the station lights the atmosphere and improves the moral of policemen and their support staff I don't mind paying at all.

Also as others have said I'm sure music helps members of the public waiting there for whatever reason.