I’m thinking the cops were polite as they knew they were on camera. Still, can’t help but notice the difference between that and the Cops show here where they seem to go out of their way to rough the folks up as they arrest them, make it look good for tv. I guess that’s what you get when you let a bunch of old jar heads join the Police
I thought you would have picked up on the fact they were stopping folks to have a chat about what they were wearing. That would have pissed me off. If I’m not breaking any law then don’t friggen stop me for a chat. Having said that, I recently heard that it is now a requirement to wear protective gear, jacket/pants etc. Not sure what the exact requirements are or how they enforce them, but I’m not sure I like that being a law. As safety conscious as I am I think that is going a bit too far. Mind you, since we have a public health care system over there maybe it’s for the best. You can spend a few hundred on pants or we can spend thousands grafting your skin back on. Hmmm, maybe I do support that idea.
The reason I got into watching these videos is I had just ordered a safety video by an ex UK Police instructor. I’ve watched some of it this morning and while the production standards are a bit cheesey (it’s a one man effort) the advice is golden. But man, I had forgotten how bikers ride over there. Overtaking into the smallest gaps and squeezing back into traffic, and this is the instructor on the safety video!!! Definitely a different culture.