Re: More station photography woes (& police searching)

In message <1137283610.809857.19040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
jonporter1052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> David Hansen wrote:
> > On 8 Jan 2006 11:37:14 -0800 someone who may be
> > jonporter1052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote this:-
> >
> > >Police officers now regularly wear ski-mask type flameproof masks
> > >on such operations as a direct result of this and a couple of other
> > >cases.
> >
> > And as a result look like a gang of thugs and are difficult to
> > identify when they do something wrong. Convenient for them, but not
> > their victims. As Home Secretaries are fond of saying, if they have
> > nothing to fear then why hide their faces.
> >
> >
> Life's a bitch isn't it David. I couldn't give a toss what I looked
> like as long as it was enough to scare the *** out of a possibly armed
> suspect, especially if I was the first of a raid team going in. It's
> designed to intimidate, as well as offer protection. They do as they
> are told and no one gets hurt. In answer to an earlier question it was
> Reading. Zinzan Street.

I remember that, did some of the TV coverage.

> The person being arrested was a "Bedsit Baron" of some notoriety,
> suspected of a couple of murders and maimings of tenants. He was a known
> violent phycopath and had a family with similar tendencies living in
> Oxfordshire, right opposite my Sister and her family and around the corner
> from my parents. Hence I did not want my picture splashed all over the
> cover of the local rag. Since my family now lives abroad, and most of the
> Darlows are locked up or dead it's academic now. As for the photographer
> he's still around, but get's annoyed with the new Tetra system as he cannot
> eavesdrop anymore. We suspected he used to get such info illegally from the
> radio and proved it when he drove from Reading to Slough at 3am to try and
> photograph another armed raid when we played tapes from an earlier incident
> over the specific channel we thought he would monitor. Point proved we
> changed procedures and frequencies.
>

It is the guy I'm thinking of, he used to phone the TVS Reading office with
info he'd got from listening in to Police radio and then try and get money
out of us for 'giving us a story'. When TVS packed in and Meridian took over
he applied for a job as a news cameraman, lasted 3 days. Didn't realise the
tripod was a two stage jobby and shot all the interviews at navel height.

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