It’s theft. If he had taken a litre of petrol to put in his car to travel without paying, we’d call it theft, it’s the same thing.
Was he working? I assumed police got things like transport for free when working.
Met Police officers committing crimes? Jesus I’m shocked!
I thought the Met got free public transport within 50 miles of London?
I know some people are going to think losing his job was disproportionate, but police breaking the law should face severe consequences. They shouldn’t ever be above the law and should be held to a higher standard, because if police lawbreaking is normalised, that’s a slippery slope.
Meh, if this is the biggest corruption in our police force today… I’ll take it. Not like he’s the only man in England who’s ever got a free train lol.
Send him down for life!
This is just a ridiculous act of scapegoating by Met Police in a piss poor attempt to distract the public from the exceptional level of more serious misconduct that runs rampant in their force without accountability.
This feels like a very disproportionate response.
Stupid for a copper but reality is a saving (£4-8 a day) outweighs the risk of being caught and paying a 20 quid fine ‘for forgetting to tap in’ maybe once a year.
If tfl won’t employ staff they will continue to lose out on this
does anyone genuinely give a shit about someone doing this?
Obviously because he’s a police officer he should lose his job for breaking the law. But on the other hand, I don’t blame him or anyone else for doing this because the privatized public transport in this country is severely overpriced and has 0 competition so services don’t get improved and they can charge whatever they want as they know people don’t have alternatives.
When I was a student I was a masters of ducking the ticket. Would not have been able to survive if I had to pay the tickets XD.
Trains make it just too easy. Just those horrible ticket machines(that aren’t accessible for the blind) on most platforms without a real person. I’ve just gotten on a train sometimes on one of these horrendous platforms and then gone straight to the office when I got onto a proper one and paid wile I was there. If the guy comes a round wanting tickets I’ll tell him the truth and pay up happily. But I do pay. Just because the systems fucked up does not mean I shouldn’t pay.
On paper it’s a minor transgression, but when you’re a police officer you need to follow the letter of the law 100%.
I can excuse institutional racism and sexual assault but I draw the line at fare evasion.
Now show that level of energy and conviction with our politicians
He should of paid.
I’m a Cop and I find this strange as in my local area we can use local transport for free.
I’m guessing it’s not the same everywhere else.
So in the Met the officers don’t get free local public transport when they produce their warrant card?
Come on a cop is supposed to know the law enough to know that criminals always get caught and they are no excuses.
Fuck me even i paid and on my line you really didn’t have to given there was no conductor most stations were lucky to have a ticket office.
Police should be held to a high standard so the sack seems appropriate. But Jesus man learn when to shut up. “Yes i did wrong, I’m sorry” not “oh, I did wrong? I did it all the time lol”
It’s a fare cop.
“Thats worse. You do see how that’s worse, right?”
Shame it’s not the same for the politicians
What I don’t understand is why he didn’t just say to the ticket inspector that he’d forgotten to pay with his Apple Pay because of the open barriers like he claimed in court?? Ticket guy probably would have been understanding and sympathetic to that and advised him to pay once he reached his destination… but he went with “yeah I always evade paying for my travel”.
Next season of Line of Duty had to massively cut on the budget I see.
That would never happen in the US. At most he’d get a one week paid vacation.
What a moron. He could have just not told anyone, paid the fine and would have never been caught. Then when he told everyone, he didn’t even pretend it was a momentary lapse of judgement, told everyone he did it all the time.
At least the courts in our country take it very seriously when a police officer commits a crime
I’ll be honest, “I do it all the time” is not the answer I’d have if I got caught over something like this
Why is it suddenly too much to ask that people who are paid to enforce the law also fucking follow the law?
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It’s theft. If he had taken a litre of petrol to put in his car to travel without paying, we’d call it theft, it’s the same thing.
Was he working? I assumed police got things like transport for free when working.
Met Police officers committing crimes? Jesus I’m shocked!
I thought the Met got free public transport within 50 miles of London?
I know some people are going to think losing his job was disproportionate, but police breaking the law should face severe consequences. They shouldn’t ever be above the law and should be held to a higher standard, because if police lawbreaking is normalised, that’s a slippery slope.
Meh, if this is the biggest corruption in our police force today… I’ll take it. Not like he’s the only man in England who’s ever got a free train lol.
Send him down for life!
This is just a ridiculous act of scapegoating by Met Police in a piss poor attempt to distract the public from the exceptional level of more serious misconduct that runs rampant in their force without accountability.
This feels like a very disproportionate response.
Stupid for a copper but reality is a saving (£4-8 a day) outweighs the risk of being caught and paying a 20 quid fine ‘for forgetting to tap in’ maybe once a year.
If tfl won’t employ staff they will continue to lose out on this
does anyone genuinely give a shit about someone doing this?
Obviously because he’s a police officer he should lose his job for breaking the law. But on the other hand, I don’t blame him or anyone else for doing this because the privatized public transport in this country is severely overpriced and has 0 competition so services don’t get improved and they can charge whatever they want as they know people don’t have alternatives.
When I was a student I was a masters of ducking the ticket. Would not have been able to survive if I had to pay the tickets XD.
Trains make it just too easy. Just those horrible ticket machines(that aren’t accessible for the blind) on most platforms without a real person. I’ve just gotten on a train sometimes on one of these horrendous platforms and then gone straight to the office when I got onto a proper one and paid wile I was there. If the guy comes a round wanting tickets I’ll tell him the truth and pay up happily. But I do pay. Just because the systems fucked up does not mean I shouldn’t pay.
On paper it’s a minor transgression, but when you’re a police officer you need to follow the letter of the law 100%.
I can excuse institutional racism and sexual assault but I draw the line at fare evasion.
Now show that level of energy and conviction with our politicians
He should of paid.
I’m a Cop and I find this strange as in my local area we can use local transport for free.
I’m guessing it’s not the same everywhere else.
So in the Met the officers don’t get free local public transport when they produce their warrant card?
Come on a cop is supposed to know the law enough to know that criminals always get caught and they are no excuses.
Fuck me even i paid and on my line you really didn’t have to given there was no conductor most stations were lucky to have a ticket office.
Police should be held to a high standard so the sack seems appropriate. But Jesus man learn when to shut up. “Yes i did wrong, I’m sorry” not “oh, I did wrong? I did it all the time lol”
It’s a fare cop.
“Thats worse. You do see how that’s worse, right?”
Shame it’s not the same for the politicians
What I don’t understand is why he didn’t just say to the ticket inspector that he’d forgotten to pay with his Apple Pay because of the open barriers like he claimed in court?? Ticket guy probably would have been understanding and sympathetic to that and advised him to pay once he reached his destination… but he went with “yeah I always evade paying for my travel”.
Next season of Line of Duty had to massively cut on the budget I see.
That would never happen in the US. At most he’d get a one week paid vacation.
What a moron. He could have just not told anyone, paid the fine and would have never been caught. Then when he told everyone, he didn’t even pretend it was a momentary lapse of judgement, told everyone he did it all the time.
At least the courts in our country take it very seriously when a police officer commits a crime
I’ll be honest, “I do it all the time” is not the answer I’d have if I got caught over something like this
Why is it suddenly too much to ask that people who are paid to enforce the law also fucking follow the law?