<< If you can't quite fit into the parking spot, you push the back car backwards and the front car a bit forwards and voila, you have space! >>

Haaa hahahaaa!

From what I've seen of your output here, suse, simply disagreeing with you would qualify as "aggressive" in your imagination.

Trust me when I say that as a man of nearly 50 I am not aggressive toward people I am asking for help. The police in question were determined to be obstructive from the outset, it had little to do with me and there was nothing I could have done differently that would have produced a different outcome. They gave me misleading advice as to the law and they refused to take a statement in relation to the misuse of the plates. They had already made their mind up that I was somehow trying to get away with something as soon as I mentioned the problem. The rest of it was simply misuse of their authority to intimidate me into going away.

I'm amused that you're "blaming the victim" though. speaks volumes for your own integrity.

Hasbeen I have a 20 year old BMW 7 series which is my own pet project. Bought cheap as an ex-limo with very low kms and very thin paint from polishing, she's gradually being brought back to life and until recently was being driven daily. The only reason she's off the road is that the aircon people managed to boil her while trying to regas, never noticing that the electric fan wasn't working, and did the head gasket in. Not happy Jan...

<< Your' aggressive style positively leaps off the posts you write. >>

I didn’t get that impression from Antiseptic’s post, Suse.

What I did glean was a strong sense of frustration and infuriation, which I share all the way.

Anyway, the police are supposed to be able to deal with angry, aggressive, frustrated people and calm them down, rather than work them up.

The police are supposed to be bound by a code of conduct, as are all public servants. Their code of conduct is their rule book! They must abide by it. And one of the most basic tenets of all codes of conduct is to treat people with due respect and courtesy.

But in the real world the code of conduct of the police is nothing more than words on paper!!

Oh for goodness sakes.
This thread has turned into a bash-the-police-fest!
I am sure there are many fine police in our society.

The only people who have real 'problems' with the police are those who have been, or are thinking of, doing something naughty...

There you go blaming the victim again. That claim is not qualitatively different to saying that a rape victim must have done something to deserve it.

some sections of the police in Qld have a serious cultural problem. The behaviour of those young women at Mt Gravatt Police was more than merely unacceptable, it was thuggish. I was genuinely fearful that if I pressed my right to ask to escalate my case to a senior officer I faced a real possibility of physical violence from those present.

I have never experienced that from a copper in my life. I will not be going near that police station in future, it is not a place where help is to be found.

There were several female officers and I saw only one male, who had just returned a traffic camera van and was in and out and didn't participate in the bullying. I wonder whether that had anything to do with it? There is a strong aggressive streak in some lesbian subcultures and these women were stereotypical "bull dykes" in appearance and manner. I'm only speculating now, but it was such aberrant behaviour there has to be something behind it. Perhaps it's overuse of steroids?

I can't believe the training is designed to produce this attitude.

No Suse, it’s not a bash-the-police fast! It is the unfortunate reality of the situation, and it is highly pertinent to Hasbeen’s question; ‘should I, would you?’.

<< The only people who have real 'problems' with the police are those who have been, or are thinking of, doing something naughty... >>

Oh how I wish that was true.