Police Officers denied use of a toilet (with inevitable outcome)

Were talking about a potential 3 , 4 minute toilet break though?

I could understand (maybe) if they were policing a heavy riot in central london with full gear
 
DO working time regulations apply to the Police? Oh and what planet are Police living on if they won't just nip to the loo are they not adults?
 
Was some of the issue not due to security protocols, the toilets were located in areas outside or inside the zones the police has access to.
Thus security and various barriers kept them from easy access to a toilet?
For the most it would be an issue to pop into a portaloo and skip two minutes, no one would know, but some were patrolling zones, such as perimeter fence, where no loos were placed, thus stuck outside the zone they needed to be in.
A toilet might be some distance and if not offered a break, then one couldn't spent the time to travel to an accessible toilet?
 
I carried out standby duties at various venues during the Commonwealth Games and I can believe these stories. The facilities were non existent for the 'staff' and if you didn't have the correct pass there was just no way you were being allowed access to certain areas. I at least had the luxury that nobody knew who I was, I wasn't in a uniform etc so I could pretty much wander around as I pleased. It would have been pretty brutal to be in a police uniform having people watching me for 14 hours continuously.
Having said that I didn't ever feel the need to soil myself.
 
Grown up men afraid to go to the loo, well they deserve poo in their pants the poor exhausted darlings.
 
Cosimo said:
Grown up men afraid to go to the loo, well they deserve poo in their pants the poor exhausted darlings.
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This.

If I need the loo nothing stops me.

I have been known to just stop off at random industrial estates on my to where ever I am going, find the largest factory or unit and just ask at reception if I could be cheeky and use their loos.

In the situation of the officers above, I would be going straight through whoever was in my way and using the loo and then going through the correct procedure to defend myself if disciplinary action was to result.
 
A lot of bitterness and hostility here from some posters.

I was working the games and can confirm the hours we were required to work were horiffic. In a period of 25 days I had 3 days off. Was held on duty at most of my Commonwealth deployments by at least 2 hours, usually more and required to work some bizzare hours. 0310 and 0410 hours starts. There were or should have been plenty of resources available to relieve folk on perimeter patrols however as per usual senior management made an arse of it and the cops bore the brunt of it. As for folk soiling thereselves I heard the stories. The hired security manning some of the gates would refuse entry just to be awkward at times resulting in long walks to get into the relief areas.

Can't say I'd let myself get to the point of soling myself, I'd be going to the toilet regardless of what I was told. For probationers and people not long in the job standing up to senior management can be quite intimidating so can imagine some cops letting it get to that stage. More fool them though.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Having a Professional Standards investigation for not following a lawful order will be stressful even if you do get everything dropped.
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More or less stressful than crapping yourself in public whilst on the job?

I think i'd pick toilet and disciplinary proceedings personally.
 
richyfingers said:
A lot of bitterness and hostility here from some posters.

I was working the games and can confirm the hours we were required to work were horiffic. In a period of 25 days I had 3 days off. Was held on duty at most of my Commonwealth deployments by at least 2 hours, usually more and required to work some bizzare hours. 0310 and 0410 hours starts. There were or should have been plenty of resources available to relieve folk on perimeter patrols however as per usual senior management made an arse of it and the cops bore the brunt of it. As for folk soiling thereselves I heard the stories. The hired security manning some of the gates would refuse entry just to be awkward at times resulting in long walks to get into the relief areas.

Can't say I'd let myself get to the point of soling myself, I'd be going to the toilet regardless of what I was told. For probationers and people not long in the job standing up to senior management can be quite intimidating so can imagine some cops letting it get to that stage. More fool them though.
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Hold on the hired security were refusing access to card carrying members of police scotland


Ffs
 
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