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.
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
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.
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?😥
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 “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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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...
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.
🤣 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 🤣🤣🤣👎✊
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.
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
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 !
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
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.
@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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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. 🤷♂️
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 ??
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!
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.
@@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
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!
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.
@@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?
@@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.
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
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".
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?
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.
@@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.
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!
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
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.
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
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!
@@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.
@@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
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 .👎
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...
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.
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.
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..
@@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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
"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!
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
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)
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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👍🇬🇧
You mean before the massive crime waves that happen now with whole call centres of crimes coming in at 10 a minute, with stretched resouces, no growth in police numbers despite huge new population, huge urban expansion of housing. Now having to deal with constant mental health calls, hospial watch for the whole shift. The problem is they're not resourced or allowed to focus on public service anymore they're being marriage councillors, mental health crisis workers and dealing with high volumes of crime.
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)
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.
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.
1970 Kids talking to police: Thank you, Officer. 2020 Kids talking to police: OI FED GO AWAY Honestly depressing that kids think this is alright nowadays, what ever happened?
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.
It's hard to believe that Britain was once a peaceful beautiful, safe happy country, the streets look so clean and safe, I can't put my finger on it but somethings seem to be missing, looks different to today 🤔