bobbies on the beat

[llywela]

I have never seen so many police patrols in my life. They're everywhere!

And, I mean, I even knew how many extra police had been drafted in for this week - we've got half of them staying in our Halls of Residence, driving the network team mad because they said they wouldn't need internet connectivity and then at the last minute decided, oh yes, actually they do. But knowing the number and seeing them all out on the street are very different things. It's like that Hitchcock film The Birds where every time you look out of the window there are more birds, only in this case it's police. Every time I venture into the centre this week there are more police. Police on foot, police on horseback, police in vans, police on motorcycles. You can't go 20 yards without running into more of them, and there's never just one - they run in packs.

There's a heavy police guard on the castle. Cardiff Castle hasn't had an armed guard at the door since the middle ages! Richard de Clare and the 3rd Marquis of Bute would be proud.

Madness.

Comments

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Crazy days out there. So much for the future meaning all the Important People can just talk to each other by skype and emails....but then, who would employ all those police guys, right?

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose world leaders do most of their negotiation remotely, but it's good policy to meet in person every now and then as well. I hope the conference was worth it - it seems to have gone smoothly!

[femsc.livejournal.com]

Of course, it's all over now - but I couldn't help but wonder whether the fence and armed guard at the castle was to keep us out or the dignitaries in.

Also - those silly blue baseball caps....? What the merry thump was all that about? There was a daft rumour that it was because the visiting helmets didn't have the word 'police' in both languages on them - but please tell me that wasn't the real reason, because that would have been just STUPID!