Anything Can Happen 1973

Police recruitment film

[@papalazarou5428]

I joined Thames Valley Police in 1976 and this was filmed in and around Thames Valley and a lot of it in Bracknell where I live now. It made me chuckle when I saw how things have changed since then. I retired after 35 years and the job has changed out of all recognition since then and not all for the better.

[@Cwizes]

Thames valley police are known for having the most notoriously bent coppers in the force. Watch the audits.

[@ebikecnx7239]

It should make you cry..not chuckle. Your government leaders destroyed the UK.

[@geezerp1982]

like shots fired calls

[@mybmwf650]

I thought it was Bracknell police station at the start, I was posted there in 1987!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Yes, you can no longer be sexist or racist.

[@Lar308]

I joined the Garda (Irish police) in 1983. A group of new trainee's came to Limerick city on the same day. As usual I was put on a unit and told to report for work the next morning while all the others had a few days off to settle in. Even though the flat I got was only about a 4 minute walk from my station I turned left instead of right and proceeded to get lost on my very first day. Everybody was saying good morning Garda but I could not very well ask for directions. I eventually backtracked and arrived at my new station barely on time for work. Retired in 2013 as a sergeant. This video made me remember those early days.

[@bastogne315]

You were kept busy with the Dundons and McCarthys I'd say.

[@clavichord]

Did you ever have to deal with Northern Ireland "Troubles" related matters in the 1980s/90s, as a member of the Garda in Limerick?

[@Lar308]

@@bastogne315 I left Limerick city in 1990 for Abbeyfeale minding Jerry Collins and then went on to Kerry so the Dundons were after my time thank god.

[@Lar308]

@@clavichord Not really. Was temporarily transferred to the border a few times for the various foot & mouth and BSE diseases but it was all uneventful checkpoints. An IRA crowd once plastered a building in Limerick with a painted slogan "we will avenge Loughall" (shortly after this incident) I caught them in the act but they were only done for criminal damage.

[@clavichord]

@@Lar308 Interesting. Thanks for sharing your memories

[@montyf2165]

I knew this film would leave me with a feeling of gloom. Seeing how worse things are now compared to the Britain in this film is thoroughly depressing.

[@gailbirchall2163]

People were very much different, solid and character, and extremely well educated and bobbies on the beat, bobbies looking out for the good of communities. Now policing is done by the people, and not a piggin brain cell amongst most, rude, ill mannered, arrogant, children that needs a nanny state to look after them, and if you say Boo, you will have your collar felt

[@Owen-hg3cu]

​@@gailbirchall2163shut up you sad weirdo

[@spidyman8853]

@@gailbirchall2163 Now all done remotely via an APP on your phone

[@MarkHenstridge]

Things have changed everywhere even here in Australia. I was born in the 60s and I was a teen in the 80s, Im just so glad I was not born in America.

[@TelexToTexel]

Cheer up, it might never happen

[@pablolowenstein1371]

This Shows What We've Lost.. 2021... Great isn't it.

[@Cassidy127]

Yeah, but we've gained a lot of that lovely diversity haven't we...

[@billlombard9911]

The real England

[@lbukem4259]

Not really, this looks like a grey, concrete shithole. Who wants to live in a grey, concrete shithole? Besides, you seem to have no problem with 21st century technology, I'd drop using it if you want to live in the 70s...

[@pablolowenstein1371]

@@lbukem4259 tell us some other fucking obvious points you've missed hammerhead.

[@davidclark2932]

I used to enjoy watching these videos in 1973. Or did I? KZbin did not exist. The internet did not exist. We have gained far more than we have lost!

[@buskingkarma2503]

This filled me with nostalgia,as I was a kid in the 70s,and now I'm not just feeling old,but thinking,,,what's happened to Britain? Where the heck did it all go wrong?😥

[@sammydingdong4540]

Simple we let the criminals of the world in and destroy our country ,compare this to Japan who had a sensible immigration policy their country is still recognisable where ours is a Hell Hole.

[@bucko321]

Tony Bloke when he was PM

[@woden20]

@@bucko321 “At the beginning of 1924, we received a call from Baron Louis de Rothschild; one of his friends, Max Warburg from Hamburg, had read my book and wanted to get to know us. To my great surprise, Warburg spontaneously offered us 60,000 gold marks, to tide the movement over for its first three years.” In his book «Praktischer Idealismus», Kalergi indicates that the residents of the future “United States of Europe” will not be the native People of the Old Continent, but a kind of sub-humans, products of miscegenation. He clearly states that the peoples of Europe should interbreed with Asians and colored races, thus creating a multinational flock with no quality and easily controlled by the ruling elite.

[@ajwest3081]

The 70s being mired by National Strikes, power cuts, massive inflation and rubbish in the streets. Are yes Britain was so much better back then!

[@mikerochburns4104]

@@bucko321 'Great Britain, built by men in overalls, and ruined by men in suits.' - _Fred Dibnah_

[@caliado]

Man, I wish I could time travel back in time.

[@deannelson1388]

And stay there, much better times.

[@MrAlexrowlands]

I joined in 1981, still remember the feeling of terror as I walked out on my first solo patrol 🤣 Happy Days. We were limited to foot patrol for 2 yrs apart from being taken in a car at really busy periods like Xmas. That was to learn the local community, and so they knew you and would remember if you didnt treat them right. Mining community during the miners strike, it was hard on both sides but we never mistreated our locals. They knew where we lived !

[@Phil-1969]

My dad worked every bit of overtime he could when the strikes were on ( copper) it paid for a portable colour tv for my Christmas present, best present I ever had

[@strikerorwell9232]

Your colleagues, tricked me into a Gay club when I asked them for the direction to a certain club in London? I noticed it was a Gay club when a guy gave me a full kiss with his tongue in 1991! The real club I was heading for was around the corner with my girlfriend later laughing hysterically when I had the trans-guys lipstick marks on my cheek.

[@MrAlexrowlands]

@strikerorwell9232 Dont worry my 'colleagues' in a neighbouring force area did that to me when we were on a night out during a weeks training course !

[@paulfrost8952]

would you have mistreated them if they weren’t your locals!?

[@MrAlexrowlands]

@paulfrost8952 Good point well made ! I wouldnt but some would. I know officers from W Midd and The Met acted like animals on occasion as they had no sense of accountability being from out of our area. We were certainly abused by the miners just for being Police officers, I had to deal an accident involving one of their young sons. They didn't call me Maggies Army then.

[@sicks6six]

when I was a kid every village had a cop shop with the cop and his wife living in it, he knew everyone by first name, knew their parents and went to school with them, his wife would natter with your mum at the shops, if you wrote your name on a bus stop he knew your nickname and would make you scrub it off, he would clip you round the ear rather arrest you for something petty, if you persisted he would take you home and tell your parents, it all seemed to change in the mid-1970s, they closed the cop shops and centralised them in big control centres and the cops were different ones from week to week, they knew no one and didn't know where anyone lived, crime exploded on the estate, burglaries, drugs, vandalism, thuggery, car crime, is it linked to taking away the local Bobbie, I don't know but its a hell of a coincidence isn't it.

[@robwilde855]

Certainly a big part of it. And your description very good. Same in our village. Things really were like that. Really bad crime extremely rare except in parts of the biggest cities. We could never have dreamt, back then, that such a good system would be so wantonly destroyed!

[@gailbirchall2163]

Those were the better days when little that we had was precious to us, and officers on the beat. We have so much, today, and no officers on the beat, and society left to rot from within.

[@zigzagtoes]

Must have been gradually, as when I was a kid, the satelite stations still existed into the 90's. Fair enough, they weren't lived in, but they did have the regular beat bobbies stationed there, and have a handful of cells. They also knew a good chunk of the residents and always engaged with the locals.

[@gailbirchall2163]

@@zigzagtoes It probably was in areas where the removal had not yet taken place, but no doubt gone now. We had a closed police station, and one beat bobby for the village. When he retired, he was not replaced, and the station was turned into flats.

[@lotharroberts5978]

This is the most bizarre recruitment film I have ever seen. Brilliant though. Wish to be in 1973 again.

[@simonjones7727]

Yes, that is exactly what I feel as well. What a lovely world we had, really. All gone now, though.

[@DeathCon666]

Who else got this on their recommendation list out of nowhere ✋🏻 😂

[@KALIMONINGRAD]

I certainly do

[@matthewhollingshead8618]

Jeremy Bulloch (Johnny, the young DC) was the original Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi.

[@Phil-1969]

My old dad joined in 1966 for Thames valley police, he got into the dog section in 1974 and retired in 1996

[@theaylesburycyclist8756]

Wow! So he would have in fact joined when it was still Buckinghamshire Constabulary. Thames Valley Police was created in 1968. 🙂

[@Phil-1969]

@@theaylesburycyclist8756 Yes he must have . He worked at Thame police station, but he nearly became the local Bobby for long crendon, he got on the dog section in around 1973 , and worked all over the area then , but still based at Thame , we often used to go to Aylesbury police station to the bar for a drink at the weekend , when I was very young , he retired in 1996 and his leaving do was at Aylesbury station

[@camptube7621]

Thank him for his service. Hope he’s still around.

[@Phil-1969]

@@camptube7621 Cheers, yes he is still with us

[@nickwebb7868]

flashbacks to the old Bracknell town back in the 70s/80s. its changed so much these days

[@mart099]

Loved this. The good old 70s. Great recruitment film. The world is so different now. I guess that’s what 50 years does. There’s only one constant and that is change.

[@bastogne315]

Safer now especially round the elephant.

[@thebossguide4859]

Ageing is another constant unfortunately.

[@racheldoesacrylic4089]

Takes me back to a time when i was around 12 yrs old and felt safe .with mum and dad etc now i am in my 60 s and i don't know where the time went ??? or common sense regarding what's happening these days 2023 ??

[@vulgivagu]

It is sad how society has deteriorated since then. Now officers have to turn up in stab proof vests, tasers, cs spray, and many of them in the big cities are now armed as well. We have been badly let down by politicians who have let this country descend into a drug paradise. The type of officer in this film never had to deal with the situations they have to today.

[@tonytotten408]

🤣 Tories they started the shut down and supression and control the establishment and there all controlled Inc the media by the elites 🤑my this video must be propeganda film 🎥 by them 🤣🤣🤣👎✊

[@GrandPrixDecals]

You realise there’s less crime now than there has ever been? Facts v’s nostalgia

[@daleharper2007]

@@GrandPrixDecals Less crime reported, try reporting anything by phoning 101 and you can see why people give up after waiting 30 mins on hold.

[@AndreaElizabeth100]

There was no CCTV back then. Things were very different and much better. I long to go back to the 1970s. I think music was better then too and entertainment.

[@billlombard9911]

It’s called respect for family , god, country . Those are four letter words now . We let a lot of cultures in that don’t respect women or community or the country. It’s very sad no one can speak the truth . Watch the movie “children of men “ that’s the UK within 20 years

[@andrewbennett7756]

Proper cops that walked the streets not drivinging around in cars . My dad was on the beat from the 50 to the late 60

[@aflaz171]

Where I live they've advanced to not even driving around in their vehicles, unless on a call.

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

Here we go, the old nonsense about foot patrol. Jesus........Complete ignorance. The UK police service doesn't have the personnel to deploy people on foot. It's not efficient, response times to emergency calls could never be met today if staff weren't mobile in vehicles. Footbeat is a complete waste of resources. You could be sat in your house now, and you wouldn't see if a police officer walked past your house. It's a MYTH that FB was effective at combating crime, the amount of ground that could be covered on foot is a fraction of that which can be covered in a vehicle. Furthermore, the vast majority of criminals use VEHICLES in the commission of their offences, whether that be drug dealing, or committing burglaries. Ergo, having people wearing out boot leather is utterly pointless when attempting to disrupt criminal activity. Don't compare the 1950's & 60's society with that of today, there is no comparison and crime has changed radically in that time. I'm pretty sure 'dad' never had fight individuals off their face on coke and intent on smashing his head in? I've done exactly that on at least two occasions. The level of violence directed towards the police far exceeds anything that occurred back in the 60's and beyond.

[@jfc4798]

Shame he didn't teach you grammar.

[@losedarkhorse]

Remember seeing this around 1980, we all were very impressed and everyone in the class wanted to join the police. Life had so much to live for then compared to now. Never ever we had our front door locked and never had any vandalism to our car or home. Life was simple and far less complicated. We went to school, got back then went out playing till dark, bit of homework and bed, no hanging around or smoking pots and what not.

[@audreyogorman2923]

Smoking pots 😂😂

[@biblechampion81]

Yes same here .

[@talisdorman.9796]

Unfortunately your police force got beaten by some POCs.

[@GeorgeyTheApe]

@@audreyogorman2923 I don't get these millennials and their pokeymans cards.

[@jerrycooper1428]

Totally agree. I'm 53 now and I remember being a kid in the 1970's (UK) This presentation captures the atmosphere of that time. As you say. Life was far more simple and straightforward.

[@farouqomaro598]

I loved that bicycle. And the cops looked really nice in those uniforms too

[@ObscureMusicObsession]

What a great old film. Loved seeing the interiors, the cars, clothes, vinyl records, everything. See the school climbing frame? No chance of seeing one of those now - health & safety!

[@johnbull9195]

"It's better to prevent the crime happening than always turn up after the event" What ever happened to that?

[@ronan5228]

Austerity

[@Ben-db5re]

Lazy police

[@twittykins]

@Morocco Mole Paperwork, risk assessments & funding cutbacks. The rot set in when the Police Force started being run along business lines.

[@jazzman1626]

They’ve changed their methods of preventing “crimes” happening and are going too far because they want to stop you even thinking about anything natural. Everything natural is now a crime to them.

[@thurstonhowell3569]

@@Ben-db5re More likely politics.

[@SIXTYDOLLARBOSS]

The supposedly unreleased album by "The Blue Jays" that the villians are caught in possession of, is actually Psychedelic Lollipop by US band Blues Magoos. The titles are covered over of course. It would've been at least 5 years old by the time this film was made. They weren't well known in the UK and so the filmakers were probably banking on it not being easily recognisable!

[@simonjones7727]

I think the girl in the record shop was the key to the whole thing. She was later found selling illegal pressings of a Pickettywitch EP to fund the Berkshire Red Brigade. Her work with "Johnny" was a classic honeytrap operation.

[@SIXTYDOLLARBOSS]

​@@simonjones7727nah, Pickettywitch never released an EP. Hang on though... did it fall off the back of the same lorry as the (not yet released) Blue Jays LP?

[@simonjones7727]

@@SIXTYDOLLARBOSS Exactly. The EP contained a specially recorded version of "That Same Old Feeling" that when played backwards at 78rpm contained a message of support for Ulrike Meinhof. Black Market Whisky and With It Green Jackets sold from a boutique in Bracknell High Street formed the rest of a sophisticated money laundering operation, It was, in hindsight, quite brilliant.

[@khalidalali186]

Fast forward to 2022, and you’ve got almost 3 million Brits using a food bank, along with 14.5 million Brits living under the poverty line, as of last year alone. 🤷‍♂️

[@ATVHOLICS]

Wow I loved the 70s it’s heartbreaking to see what England became.

[@theproudbull5935]

What became of England ??

[@supertrinigamer]

The crime filled country it is now.

[@freeman8879]

@Rockstar doobydoogle Gang stabbings, acid attacks commonplace, a police more likely to investigate a tweet than your burgled house.

[@JB_inks]

@@freeman8879 and get arrested for having an England flag, right?

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Yup

[@dazdaz105]

“Better to prevent crime than turn up after the event” And now look at the state of the country. Now your lucky if they turn up at all.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

I could tell you a story or two abut the police in south London back in the early '70s and '80s! They really did know how to "look after" the local community!

[@saxongreen78]

In an emergency, I have learned to NEVER CALL THE POLICE! Aussie cops would not push an old lady's car...they would probably give her a ticket and stand about, smirking and jeering while she waited for the tow truck (that she summoned.)

[@SeanConnoly]

Not now, you know why because, oh forget it.

[@ginagina9720]

I enjoyed watching this thank you 🙏 The cars fashion Of the 70s absolutely brilliant! And going into the policeman’s house 🏡 the wallpaper in the kitchen I remember my mam having that in her kitchen proper nostalgia

[@amanielwolde]

Wow, the wallpaper got me too. The cars, the clothes and 70s style. Very nostalgic indeed !

[@chalk6761]

What memories...like watching my dear old Dad who was a Policeman from 1968 until he retired....and 6ft 4 aswell.

[@Phil-1969]

Yep my dad joined in 1966 , I remember the Mk1 escorts well . Happy childhood memories

[@EarlEBird-fz6yr]

My dad too, I remember him coming home for his dinner and having to listen to his walkie-talkie which he placed on the table while he ate, not too sure whether he was having a skive though :-) Happy days!

[@chalk6761]

@@EarlEBird-fz6yrstrict parent....but we always felt secure....in our Police House.😊

[@thetrouserpressguy603]

11:06 - All it needed was Jack Regan and George Carter to walk in. "We're the Sweeny and we haven't had any dinner". "Oi, get yer trousers on, you're nicked". 14:45. Nice bit of "mixing".

[@BassistPaul]

Great to see dependable, familiar TV actors earning a crust - much like me playing on advertising jingles!

[@Lar308]

Yes as a new policeman (Garda) I was on the beat constantly for the first 5 years. It was only rarely I would see the inside of a Garda car. I did not mind being on the beat during the day as there were plenty of people around but on nights (10pm - 6am) it was not much fun. I often could hear all the snoring through the open windows on summer nights at 4am and wished I was able to do the same.

[@jssjnehdjrndn6083]

When did you join the force?

[@Lar308]

@@jssjnehdjrndn6083 26th January 1983. I had just turned 24 years three days earlier.

[@jssjnehdjrndn6083]

@@Lar308 happy 65th bday

[@eddiek0507]

That's when they was respected a lot more. An influx of 'bad apples' throught the years and look what we are left with today. Don't get me wrong, there are 'bad apples' in all walks of life, but when statements were written in the old days, they had a habit of changing...

[@hondac7028]

My first car was a Hillman imp in 1988 that was always breaking down to lol.

[@arvinpareftsid2039]

And look how straight the German shepherds’ backs were then

[@Spectrescup]

that's actually a good point. Horrific inbreeding.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Police today could learn a lot from this vid here.

[@patrioticjustice8462]

When police were useful and a well respected job can't say that in today's times sad really

[@gailbirchall2163]

You mean when they pounded the beat, and you knew their names, but now bully boys that have left the streets, housed in building, sitting around, doing what?

[@joelangley7974]

⁠There is simply not enough officers these days to walk the beat, secondly they are so inundated with paperwork you wouldn’t believe . I can guarantee that most officers these days wish it was the same as it was where they were proper on-the-beat police officers, not mental health nurses, social workers and everything in between.

[@gailbirchall2163]

@@joelangley7974 Not according to an ex Home Office official that I was talking to, who despaired hearing of officers, useless as a broken vase. Thousands more officers we now have, and as stupid and arrogant as they come.

[@user-bv4xt8cp1n]

Police uniforms were much smarter back then with shiney silver button tunics, shirt and tie and they didn't have to wear a anti stabb Vest. All they had in those days was a truncheon, handcuffs, helmet and a Walkie Talkie Radio

[@wretch1]

I was a copper in the 80s and early 90s. Then the Police and Criminal Procedures Act kicked in and officers can no longer do their job effectively. Too much red tape and disproportionate rights for criminals. I left the job for this very reason. Thank God I did because these days it's even worse.

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

Coppers was a lot better then , our local copper was always round my house looking for me as a kid , the same copper was my referee for my shotgun and firearms certificates, Boys will be boys was his saying

[@gailbirchall2163]

Sadly the police of present times have no interest, just a job that keeps them from out of the shop or factory.

[@dariowiter3078]

Good grief! Your experience sounds too much like American police nowadays. 😕

[@slobodanreka1088]

6:12 "Working for a computer." How accurate that preposition turned out to be.

[@hatednyc]

Putting a roach in your food is a common scam to get a free meal. I love the dispatcher’s Chelsea hairdo

[@MichaelGeorge161]

THIS IS CRAZY, looks like it was filmed yesterday!

[@davids8449]

I phoned the police a few years ago about a break in next door...........They could not find the house............ True Story

[@jamescorlett5272]

I phoned the police yesterday and they couldn't find the phone - Evening All ✋️

[@dariowiter3078]

😳😳😳😳😳 😮😮😮😮😮

[@dariowiter3078]

​@DatamanBI Good grief! 😮

[@Gannett2011]

I never thought I'd ever see this film again. Back in about 1981 at school down in Exeter, the local police liaison officer was PC Marshall. He would visit the school and chat with us, and occasionally, no doubt to fill in the time, he'd show police recruitment films like this on the projector. There was another one I remember with a petrol tanker leaking all over the road after an accident - a bit more dramatic than this one. And at 4:14, I think the bloke on the left might be the actor Alan Dudley.

[@fman02]

Petrol tanker, best rhyming slang I've seen in months.

[@dunesurfermt5004]

A stolen car is a priority how things have changed.

[@rutter1ify]

I wasn't born until 1990, but this era looks like the good old days to me 👍 it's sad what this country has turned into 😕

[@theproudbull5935]

What has our country turned into? Why is it sad ?

[@tortozza]

@@theproudbull5935 A shithole

[@arturo468]

I was at school in the 70s and things did seem a lot simpler than than they are now.

[@jazzman1626]

@@fman02 The natural (did you/can you ever understand natural) order was established a very long time ago WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION! All you people do is impose your imagined “phobias” or your “ists” on it. Now they are getting kids to spy on their parents. The antiChrist state we live under now assumes ownership of every families kids and groom then on a national scale for anything and everything unnatural. Yes, it WAS better back then, in fact the worst of back then is still better than the best of today.

[@geezerp1982]

@@arturo468 you should see the schools now ! taking over by left wing liberal teachers ! they dont even rase their voices to the kids now ! there are videos on youtube, they just let the kids do what they want ! girls are also acting bad as the boys now

[@thealchemistdaughter3405]

How human and humble everyone seems.. What has changed in the U.K. that knife crime , violence, looting , rapes ect are now a daily occurrence?.. Heartbreaking to see how quickly this country has deteriorated..

[@gordanjenson5148]

Nice to know that according to you there was never a reported case of knife crime, violence, looting, robbery or r*pe in the UK till the year 2000 😂

[@kesgreen4639]

Are they actually more common, or just more commonly reported? My dad worked in a Hammersmith pub in the '50s and there were always fights.

[@thealchemistdaughter3405]

@@kesgreen4639 I owed a pub for many years my self.. Fights happened but were very rare and quickly resolved without police.. I never seen anyone stabbed nor any looting and women were confident regarding their safety at night.. That certainly not the case now.

[@kesgreen4639]

@@thealchemistdaughter3405 where was the pub?

[@thealchemistdaughter3405]

@@kesgreen4639 my pub was in Scotland just outside Edinburgh but my best friend ran pubs in Covent Garden, Piccadilly and Richmond for nearly 30 years .. Spent many great times in London.. Seems like a different world now.

[@SeanGreene13]

I was around in the 70, we had respect for the police in those days, not anymore sadly. They wouldn't bother with most of the crime in this, wouldn't give a toss. They've lost their way and the publics faith.

[@artdodd2932]

Great show. Kind of like ADAM-12 here in the states. British shows in the U.S. are limited. Thanks to You Tube. I was a beat Cop in NJ. Brought back memories.

[@geezerp1982]

now just like in the usa, police forces put out videos of indictable arrests - now with some of time of "armed police drop your weapon, shots fired " etc

[@EarlEBird-fz6yr]

Funnily enough my dad, a British "Bobby" once visited a police station in New York, he loved the experience and the guys there welcomed him as they exchanged stories! This would have been the 1980s' I'd have thought.

[@frankspencer6935]

A jolly posh version of Martin Freeman before he ended up in an office putting staplers in jelly.

[@michael5089]

Great minds!! I thought Martin Freeman as soon as I saw 'him'!!!!!! 👍😅

[@Cassidy127]

Frank's cafe, established over 50 years, went out of business due to the Covid restrictions in November last year

[@farouqomaro598]

Really sad. A lot of family businesses also are going out of business around the world. The only winners are the big chains

[@tonytotten408]

And the elites .🤑remember the owner weather spoons when the so called pandemic started he laid off his staff before the furlough scheme came in.....? And yet there was a picture of him and your leader Boris standing with a pint in one of his establishments gloating the pubs will be open soon ...yeh 2 millionaire s together what does that tell you and no social distancing or face masks ... British citizens need to make there mind up ...I will be boycotting that businesses .👎

[@jayrobthorn6847]

Only one winner as always and its the multi national elitist owned corporations.

[@farouqomaro598]

@Windy Miller Yup, they are the really big winners

[@orsonkart4794]

Where is it?

[@Equinoxious342]

The youngster made it in the police - he reached the level of DCI, DCI Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse - The Bill).

[@andrewjames3908]

didnt he become the super eventually even though it looked like there was hardly anyone else at sun hill by then

[@marria01]

@@andrewjames3908don't forget that 'Johnny' became Boba Fett in Star Wars.

[@michaelbentley2119]

So Bracknell looked similar that what it did before the north part of town centre was knocked down but there were so few cars on the road and the youths had very long hair. Only the inside of the Police Station looks the same. Thanks, Andrew, for posting this bit of Bracknell history

[@fman02]

My fave Bracknell memory is the spraying of the words "Welcome to West Beirut" on the Great Hollands sign near the Mill Pond roundabout.

[@kevinpitt2203]

@@fman02 I remember that, but my memory is slightly different, I thought it was 'Twinned with West Beirut'.

[@ianstoyan]

I want to be a policeman in the 1970s.

[@paulfrost8952]

Like “life on mars” policing?

[@simonjones7727]

It does look great. "The house comes with the job". The wife too, by the looks of it.

[@melgrant7404]

Nice classic cars.

[@colshythecomedian]

"I'm sure he wouldn't have minded THAT driving his car"🤭

[@majormanfredrex]

Now there really are "THATS" driving the cars, with all the pronouns in effect.

[@MsOnyx123]

I’m sure Life on Mars series was modelled on this , one looks like Sam Tyler

[@bluesteel6612]

Some very well known 1970s British tv & film actors in that production

[@johnallen7807]

Today "Sorry madam, I'm arresting you for breaching the Covid regs"!

[@Cassidy127]

£200 fine for you and your mate for walking around the park drinking a Starbucks coffee... Nice little earner init

[@lodersracing]

Embarrassing aren't they

[@EarlEBird-fz6yr]

"Ello, ello, and what have we e're then? Little Jimmy trying to nick a Cessna 172 from the local airport, "You're not kiddin' me, young'n, you're off to jail me lad, let's be a'vin you"! Little shit!

[@salvadormarley]

You beat me to it John.

[@johnallen7807]

@@salvadormarley Not to mention the £200 fine for having a coffee on the park bench! Vote ReformUK!

[@WarrenCromartie2]

I live in the town where this was filmed. Great to all those all shots of the town centre and the estates. I was 4 years old at the time. The film 'The Offence' with Sean Connery was also filmed here (Bracknell)

[@davidedgecombe3788]

I have got this film on a BFI COI (Central Office Of Information) collection DVD Police and Thieves.

[@davidfoxall3344]

The narrator and main character is Simon Rouse who did a long stint as Jack Meadows in the Bill. His partner is Jeremy Bulloch who was the original Boba Fett

[@benkerry2006]

These old radios are way easier to understand than the new ones

[@cameronleehorace]

It's actually very interesting this film

[@camptube7621]

Fast forward. They are dressed in Rainbow clothes, twerking in carnivals and arresting you for Twitter posts. All this whilst everyone is stabbing each other to death around the corner.

[@biblechampion81]

Really! Shameful disgusting.😡 no respect for them now Gestapo police .

[@dameaustel]

Yes rainbow clothes what a terrible crime. yawn

[@camptube7621]

@@dameaustel you don’t get it do you. I was in the job, the respect is very important. The fear of being caught, if you saw a cop approaching you would be worried. The police no longer have respect. They are there to enforce the law, not dance the Macarena. Go to other countries and you won’t see them behaving like that.

[@kevinblaylock391]

Great vid, brings back family memories. Thank you for sharing 👍

[@BobWilliscorgi]

Bloody hell! What in the world has happened to our police in 2021?

[@colinu406]

No longer public servants but government stooges

[@gailbirchall2163]

Idiots and bully boys and criminals. The worst emergency service we have. No one can be bothered to turn up to house break-in, just issue a case number, amidst the fact that we have thousands more officers than ever before. People do not know, now, what it means to see a bobby on the beat or attending break-ins, and most other things, though if there is a shop thief, they will turn up mob handed.

[@gailbirchall2163]

@@colinu406 Thick as pig shit and bully boys. Over sixty years I have seen this so-called emergency service change from well educated, honest and decent people, with exceptions. Now get a shovel and just scoop up the shit from out of stations, officers supporting officers in criminality, which never was the case.

[@Steve14ps]

Patrolling in a Ford Escort! :-)

[@MarkPiccolo]

How society in the 70s 80s and 90s was way more civilised and respected back than compared today 🤦‍♂️

[@lookagain3305]

Those Raleigh police bikes 😍 Rolls Royce of bicycles.

[@andrewbennett7756]

Brand new escort 1973 my dad drove a mini with blue doors

[@bocjagne2878]

I was born in December 1973 so this is great to see.

[@calanon534]

Rest in Peace, Father Britain, and the society you once had. I mourn the loss as I see everyone following her example. I suppose this is ... part and parcel.. of living in the modern world.

[@freeman8879]

@Cal Anon Threatened with being stabbed whilst simultaneously being called a raciisss....it’s all part and parcel of multiculti Britain init

[@BudSchnelker]

@@freeman8879 Same here on the other side of the pond. White children are going to grow up in a country where they're a despised minority.

[@Tmilitaria]

Literally reminds me of Heartbeat

[@batmandestroys1978]

I loved this film! Absolutely brilliant!

[@jonbondMPG]

The most amazing thing is 1:47 they're actually wearing seat belts 🤣

[@chrismanning675]

Ah, so this is where DCI JACK MEADOWS started his career

[@thunderfoot5167]

This was filmed in Bracknell, Crowthorne, Swinley and White Waltham.

[@chabrefski5276]

This is a memory

[@deltafoxtrot2]

simpler times and not a lap top or mobile phone insight...

[@jamiestuart5186]

Truly unrecognizable to the bully boy militia that presently pass themselves off as peace officers. Those were simpler & better times.

[@354sd]

Our huge new multi million pound police station is only open Monday to Friday 10 till 6. The old station was manned 24/7

[@FiveLiver]

Nowadays it would be two tichy roly poly women.

[@ccityplanner1217]

Nowadays, there's no house that you get: you live in Harlow, and you take the train to work. I've had the idea that a constable should have responsibility not only to the ward he works, but also to the parish where he lives. If this principle were applied, the safest town in the south would be Harlow in Essex.

[@marksaville9211]

Yes, life really was like this.

[@simonjones7727]

Yes, nowadays they would have the old lady whose Hillman Imp broke down Tasered before you could say "Z Cars"

[@gailbirchall2163]

It was, and even more depth the years previous.

[@jamescorlett5272]

50 years on and didn't we do well .

[@jamescorlett5272]

@simonjones7727 made me laugh mate 🤣

[@gailbirchall2163]

@@jamescorlett5272 Very well indeed. Give the police a cuddly toy to play with, keep them out of harms way.

[@TheGuvOfWythenshawe]

A very young Simon Rouse! (aka DCI/Superintendent Jack Meadows)

[@ft7599]

that reference to the WPC at 0640 is hilarious

[@melgrant7404]

Old phone box xx This must have been around easter time because of the eggs in the shop.the kids remind me of being 5 in 1973.

[@Lar308]

I think the problem is that nowadays to get to the top in the police you have to have degree's in business, human resources, sociology etc and the people getting the promotions are those who spent most of their careers in offices and administration so they are a few steps removed from reality on the ground when they are promoted. They want to think of themselves as CEO's of major companies and the only concern for them is their next promotion. The people doing the promotions are just the same so its a continuous cycle.

[@davidroberts1187]

A lost time, progression makes things better does it!

[@russthebiker]

I remember our local coppers riding bikes, big stong chaps, lots of them ex army, used to sneak up on the local yobs, also coppers on the beat used to pick up information, and see things, notice odd things, but thanks to Government cut backs, we have more people and less coppers ( except for politicians, they always have police protection)

[@189kuzco]

Spoke too soon ref politicians and police protection...

[@gailbirchall2163]

We have an excess of police, massively, but where the feck are they but in stations, doing what? Notice how they come out mob handed if a report of a person's caught stealing from a shop, if every you come across this. The police are like silver fish, one moment you see none, the next they have come out of the woodwork, are everywhere. I was born and brought up when police were police and, on the beat, looked after the good of society, and the numbers not that great. We had one bobby for our village, Constable Hassal.

[@vjab1108]

Wow today it is all about Hurty Words, how things have changed.

[@johnners911]

You get thrown in jail these days if you say you're English

[@Kiinell]

'Join the force and get your bird.'

[@bidvision]

I'm going to be watching out for someone who's dark, young, and wearing a with-it green jacket.

[@simonjones7727]

Mungo Jerry?

[@cindygardener-collinsmimi531]

Nice cop car, worth a few bob now. Nice to see a phone box as well, I miss them, haven't got anywhere to have a pee now walking home from the pub. Oh well, happy days👍🇬🇧

[@sputumtube]

How different things are now (sadly).

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

How times of changed. Police have to give their collar no, and show their Warrant card, or they could be sacked. Police can not ask for your name unless they tell you what offencd you been detained for. Police helping out little old ladies, is no more. And seeing a police car or police officer out and about..... that never happens these days. It takes weeks on a 999 call in 2023 to get the police to attend, and then 999 is usually engaged or tell you to dial 101 and wait six hours for police to answer the telephone. The closure of police stations, so its impossible to even go and see them.

[@ctcurry1777]

Gotta love the 70s...a woman driving is OK as long as she's a looker! 😅

[@liamsohal-griffiths1094]

The starting line is a howler: "Women, they drive you spare don't they!"

[@mike-myke22]

Ah, those were the days. I remember collecting brown envelopes from Soho pimps.

[@mike-myke22]

Thanks for posting! 😉