You know your neighbours are hard-core when...

[clive milne]

Was on the nature strip this morning doing a bit of gardening when an unmarked car with a (couple of coppers) drives past and stops at the end of the street to visit the 'usual suspects' - pretty much a weekly event.

As they get out to go down the driveway, I couldn't help but notice the fact that they were both wearing bullet proof vests.

The joys of city living, hey?

[glend]

I suppose Christmas is a good time to catch up with people at home for the holidays.

[Ric]

Hi Clive, and by stark contrast the highway patrol set up their radar behind the community noticeboard at the top of our property.

If it's summer like now I'll take him or her up a cool drink and have a chat. If it's winter then a coffee or hot chocolate is in order.

At first they are a bit suspicious but once they realise I am involved in emergency services as well (RFS), they are relaxed and quite chatty.

They have a tough job with little thanks and deserve our support.

Cheers :)

[Atmos]

I have community housing next door, a few years ago I had some neighbours (now moved) that I can only suspect were drug dealers or something along those lines. Seeing cop cars 1-3 times per day wasn't usual.

If they didn't answer the door they would just come back later, again and again and again.

[clive milne]

Yes, I know well enough.

I used to live next door to a couple of coppers and we ended up being family friends. He ended up working for the TRG, and she moved on to become a detective - one of her cases was investigating the Claremont serial killer (just caught last week, incidentally - 20 odd years later) She wouldn't tell me much about it, but it was enough to understand that these guys spend their day dealing with the lowest forms of utterly depraved pond scum you could possibly hope (not) to meet. I can fully understand how hard they have it and why they mostly don't allow 'others' in to their social circle.


I don't envy their career choice, not one little bit.

[xelasnave]

I spent much of my childhood living in the residence attached to the court house in little country towns so mostly lived next door to the local sergeant whose residence was back of the police station.
Up until I came to Sydney my friend was mostly the son of the sergeant.
Other kids sortta left you out of things I recall.
Alex

[multiweb]

I can top that. SWAT going through the door of an apartment complex at 7:00am in Busby down the road from where I leave. Probably another drug related raid.

[Wavytone]

Mmmm... while working for a large company in Granville 2005-2011 gunfights in the street were pretty much a weekly event though it was quite rare for them to succeed in hitting anyone. These didn't usually make the media. The police had a pretty swift response and several times the street the company was in was blocked off while the TRG sorted out the mess.

[el_draco]

Bang on. A job I could not do in a pink fit and they have my complete and utter respect and sympathy for the crap they have to deal with. :thumbsup:

[jenchris]

I got 2 living in my street - the one next door is a dog handler and a bloody nuisance as he breeds Bull Mastiffs and they're noisy and intimidating.
I have a lot of respect for the thin blue line - they earn their shekels