OLD My bullshitometer is twitching, what d'you reckon?

[datingdolly]

So, supposedly he's a 'close-protection-officer' for The Royal Family, just about to retire & move into 'firearms'.......& he lives in Norfolk.

Long commute

Wadda you reckon?

Sandringham is in Norfolk.

Founds fishy to me too!

Sandringham's in Norfolk, friend of mine bumped into Prince Philip on the beach.

However, it does still sound like bollocks though!

DH is a copper in Norfolk.

Given that Liz spends an awful lot of her time in Norfolk, we have lots and lots of close protection officers here, I know some of them quite well.

First hit on google for example

The Royals spend tons of time at Sandringham, and Wills and Kate live in Anmer which is also in Norfolk. Could easily be true.

Someone does the job.

Oh ahh, and Prince William operating the Air Ambulance in the region. He flew over my head the other day!

I don't know but if he's genuine, you're humiliating him online. That's quite a bit of personal info you've just given out about someone.

Is this a taat? Can someone link please?

Why would it be a TAAT? The OP is talking about online dating (OLD).

I originally come from Norfolk. A number of people do commute to London daily. 1hr 40mins by train.

Sorry - ignore me. I didn't understand the OLD reference.

Yes, as somebody married to a copper in Norfolk who knows most of the royalty protection officers and works closely with them, I could quite easily find one who is single and about to retire and take up a job in firearms... Very identifying.

SilverBirch is also right, vast swathes of people live in Norfolk and commute to London. In fact, some research years ago found that given the percentage of the Norfolk population that commutes to the city, we could rightly be labelled as a suburb of London.

The only thing I'd say - boyfriend is a copper and we met online - is that he was a lot vaguer about exactly which area of policing he was in until he knew me better. With the threat level against officers pretty high at the moment it's not massively sensible to blab about it to strangers online. So he might just not be massively sensible maybe. Or my boyf was more paranoid but otherwise those things sound kinda plausible.

Would a royal family close protection officer disclose his job on OLD? Seems an odd thing to do

If he was he isn't likely to actually tell you until you have met and got to know each other to be honest.

Saying you are in close protection has the same BS value as declaring your membership of the SAS

Coppers here do a year in public protection (royals) before moving to firearms. Dh and I were chatting about this only yesterday, he is a copper.

Perfectly plausible. However, someone working in this field would be v cagey about that information. If its given freely, I would call BS.

Yep BS, if it were true he'd not be bragging about it.
Also makes him sound a bit dim if he can't see the obvious flaws in his story ?

Sounds like bs to me- avoid

Many aren't cagey though are they? They see it a s a badge of honour, especially if they are young uns.

It's a plausible story. The protection officers have a rep for not doing too much as the families they are assigned to are often not there much, so not exactly SAS.

DH just nipped home and I mentioned this thread to him. He said the only bit he was a bit about was the disclosure of what the officer did during OLD. DH tells nobody what he does. Even our dc don't know, other than a vague 'he's a policeman'. Apparently Norfolk is the only force outside of the Met which has its own royal protection unit.

And yes, they're not too busy all the time. It's bog all like the SAS. If you were going to go for a full on Walter Mitty, you'd probably choose something else. Last time we bumped into a member of royal protection on shift, he was sitting in his car, eating a bacon sandwich and filling in paperwork. Rock and roll.

Bullshit. Anyone who actually did a job like that wouldn't tell you straight away, it's just not how people like that roll, they would say something like "I'm in security", not open with the flashy job. Same as an SAS or similar person would probably just say "I'm a soldier". True power and esteem/confidence is never braggy.

Bullshit I'm afraid.

I was talking to a prison officer a while back, he couldn't tell me where exactly ( about 5 in the area) but sent a link. His emails are not private some government agencies can and do keep tabs on employees.

No one in his position would disclose such information.