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Minister for police gets purse stolen at a policing conference

(39 Posts)
mae13 Thu 12-Sept-24 16:16:13

Whoops!

Oreo Thu 12-Sept-24 16:20:31

😄Oh the irony of it.

Oreo Thu 12-Sept-24 16:20:59

Hope she didn’t lose much, just a few coppers?

Salti Thu 12-Sept-24 18:47:58

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰

David49 Thu 12-Sept-24 19:14:57

Who would have thought it, dishonest people at a police conference !.

Cossy Thu 12-Sept-24 19:31:59

I know it’s not funny.. PMSL!

😂😂😂😂😂😂

M0nica Thu 12-Sept-24 19:34:34

I gather they have now arrested someone!! But will they ever live it down?

Indigo8 Thu 12-Sept-24 19:43:06

Do we know if the person arrested was a serving police officer?

AGAA4 Thu 12-Sept-24 19:52:21

56 year old man from Coventry has been arrested for the theft so not a police officer.

Allira Fri 13-Sept-24 14:51:44

Oreo

Hope she didn’t lose much, just a few coppers?

😂😂😂

Allira Fri 13-Sept-24 14:52:31

AGAA4

56 year old man from Coventry has been arrested for the theft so not a police officer.

Was he sent there by the police officers?

(Sorry)

MissAdventure Fri 13-Sept-24 14:54:57

grin
The two Ronnies - The lavatory has been stolen from police headquarters.
A spokesperson said they are investigating, but have nothing to go on.

Lisaangel10 Fri 13-Sept-24 15:00:09

Listening to Jeremy Vine show today and people were ringing in about things they had had stolen in unlikely places.

A man rang in and said after he qualified as a barrister, his grandfather bought him a very expensive pen. (About £120 around 40 years ago.) It was stolen from a room that only barristers are allowed in.

A woman had her bag and contents stolen at the Vatican. There were so many examples. A Policeman was jailed today for stealing approx £100 from the pocket of a man who collapsed.

MissAdventure Fri 13-Sept-24 15:04:11

Oh that's disgusting!
A policeman rifling through someone's pockets!!!

AGAA4 Fri 13-Sept-24 15:04:34

Allira 😂 he should have been.

Allira Fri 13-Sept-24 15:05:36

AGAA4

Allira 😂 he should have been.

😃

MissAdventure Fri 13-Sept-24 15:09:44

🤭

Mollygo Fri 13-Sept-24 15:10:37

Allira

AGAA4
56 year old man from Coventry has been arrested for the theft so not a police officer.
Was he sent there by the police officers?
🤣🤣🤣

The theft is a really awful thing to happen to anyone, with the additional embarrassment of being on TV.
She should have read all the advice on cross-body bags on GN.

MissAdventure Fri 13-Sept-24 15:22:16

Imagine feeling all around your bag in every pocket, then taking it all out and checking again, before you have to start telling people...

Grantanow Fri 13-Sept-24 15:43:04

Couldn't make it up!

maddyone Fri 13-Sept-24 17:19:50

I take a different view.
Whilst I don’t approve of stealing (who would really?) I think that if it had to happen to anyone, it’s good it happened to her, because it’s a good thing if ministers understand how the ordinary person in the street feels when they experience petty crime. Government Ministers are so protected that they lose any sense of what ordinary people feel. This incident will hopefully be remembered by her as she goes forward in her role, and will inform her decisions.

Leanetta Sun 15-Sept-24 11:20:22

Many years ago, I was working as a store detective. My bag got stolen from the staff room! I bet the perpetrator had a right good laugh when they found all the associated paperwork in there blush

Oreo Sun 15-Sept-24 11:22:40

maddyone

I take a different view.
Whilst I don’t approve of stealing (who would really?) I think that if it had to happen to anyone, it’s good it happened to her, because it’s a good thing if ministers understand how the ordinary person in the street feels when they experience petty crime. Government Ministers are so protected that they lose any sense of what ordinary people feel. This incident will hopefully be remembered by her as she goes forward in her role, and will inform her decisions.

That’s a really good point!

Cateq Sun 15-Sept-24 11:34:42

My friend was a senior police officer in uniform after attending court one day she went for lunch and hung her bag on the back of her chair and it was stolen. No one is safe from theft.

grandtanteJE65 Sun 15-Sept-24 11:38:56

Lisaangel10

Listening to Jeremy Vine show today and people were ringing in about things they had had stolen in unlikely places.

A man rang in and said after he qualified as a barrister, his grandfather bought him a very expensive pen. (About £120 around 40 years ago.) It was stolen from a room that only barristers are allowed in.

A woman had her bag and contents stolen at the Vatican. There were so many examples. A Policeman was jailed today for stealing approx £100 from the pocket of a man who collapsed.

It rather depends on where in the Vatican the good lady was, how shocked we should be. There are quite a lot of places in the Vatican city that the general public is admitted to, after all.