Quote: Originally posted by romany on 28/10/2018
Take your point about the Spanish Bob although their not as mad as it first seems. Take the running of the bulls most Spanish taking part have trained or are vastly experienced in this festival.
They get very angry with the stupid tourist who instead of watching try and take part and then get other people injured because they don't know what their doing.
Knowing your ex police Bob why is it the laws on public disorder and nuisance no longer seem to be used
I retired 16 years ago and they were certainly used then.
However, I have to admit that since my retirement I have had to call the police myself on a few occasions about local issues and have not been very happy about the response, including a 999 call when my elderly neighbour was being accosted by some youngsters and it took the police 30 minutes to arrive.
I called them once regarding the fireworks I mentioned and they didn't arrive until the next day...and then it was just a community officer or whatever they call them who admitted she hadn't got a clue about the laws on fireworks.
I had to educate her and then made my own investigations locally to determine who was responsible and what type of fireworks they were using as I originally thought, due to how loud they were, that they might be stolen banned fireworks.
So...don't ask me...I'm as frustrated with the way the police operate nowadays as everyone else but I daresay there are reasons.