Gobbledigoose - for example, Dh used to work with one guy in particular who was in line for the firearms squad (for want of a better term). This guy was a complete psycho, simply wanted a gun so that he could, as he used to put it, "see what it feels like to blow a hole in someone". He passed all the psychological testing and he did get the gun. Five years later he and a couple of his colleagues were actually fired (well offered a form of compulsory resignation). It turns out that these three used to make a game out of scaring the sh*t out of 'rookies'. Their game involved dressing in black with skimasks, 'kidnapping' young recruits and taking them out to waste land where they would threaten all sorts of things whilst holding the gun to these guys heads. They only revealed their identities when their victims literally peed their pants.
They were only caught because one person had a complete mental breakdown as a result of one of their nights of 'fun' and once well enough -had the guts to tell all. The annoying thing is that their records do not show that they were disciplined and fired - just that they all took early retirement. I know for definate that one of them still works in law, as some sort of solicitor.
As I said - this is one example of the attitudew within the force. Others include; A woman who is constantly harrassed and stalked by her ex-husband, he's in the force and his colleagues lie and regularly give him an alibi (including his sergeant). Another woman, opened up to her DH's 'friend' (asking his advice as a policeman) about abuse in her childhood and the fact that her stepfather had traced her and was trying to make her have sex with him through threatening her children. She had not told her husband, she didn't want her DH or her children knowing about her past and she wanted this 'friend' to scare him off. The 'friend' took the opportunity to do exactly the same as her stepfather- under the threat that he would tell her Dh that she was having an affair with the step-father.