Oh, my word . . . Could anything be more calculated to bring out the snark in bloggers, journalists, humorists, and other such life forms?
It is the stuff of TV and movie cliche, but it seems doughnuts really ARE high on an American cop’s list of priorities.
After all, Philadelphia police officers were quick to show their British counterparts where to get the best kind during an exchange programme today.
British Transport Police (BTP) officers are currently in the States to share railroad security and counter-terrorism practices with officers from Amtrak Police Department (APD), which looks after America’s railways.
But first things first – the day began with the all-important visit to Dunkin Donuts.
Officers from BTP then jointly patrolled Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station where they observed Amtrak’s security operations onboard trains and around the station.
Throughout the week, British rail officials will observe similar activities at Baltimore’s Penn Station and New York’s Penn Station.
It is part of the first major exchange of railroad and counter-terrorism practices between the two nations.
I can just imagine the words being exchanged right about now between furiously embarrassed US senior managers and their ‘cops on the beat’ . . . “You not only let a journalist record it, you let a bloody photographer take a picture of you??? Are you deliberately trying to make us a laughing-stock???”
Peter
Several years ago a guy tried to rob a Winchell’s Donuts shop in Sante Fe Springs, CA. He didn’t dawdle but before he was done he had police from three different agencies there to greet him. The news report said it all, “he apparently had never studied the migratory habits of the police.”
On the bright side, at least they didn’t make the run in a helicopter.