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[Burnie]

You've used the phrase "if you want to complain about it then come back in the morning when you're not completely legless!" more than once in an evening....


You know you're an unemployed special when you check your benefit book to see if this week is a signing on week or whether you can go out to play

You refer to doing a duty as "going out to play"

[Kaonashi]

...when you turn up for duty and you don't:

1. Know which shift you'll be on with
2. Remember all/any of their names anyway
3. Recognise the numerous different Sergeants by voice alone, and so simply reply "hi there" when they say "hi" to you
4. Instantly remember which computer password you have chosen this month
5. Recognise the vast array of local ne'er-do-wells because you only work eight hours per week
6. Have a Scooby Doo what's going on, who's doing what, who is where etc.
7. Hesitate to ask millions of questions to compensate for point #6
8. Complain about the job half as much as your regular colleagues

[Josh'Grizzly'Gregory]

You know when you're a trainee special when your other half tells you that she's worried about you because certain members of the public don't like the police service.

[Foxes]

When....

You have a nice 'serving officer' award <------

You come face to face with someone holding a knife on your first shift and have to extend your ASP!

[Llama]

...when you give directions as "Left Left Left"...
...when looking for your car in the car park and friends are with you, your identify it as "A silver Vauxhall Astra Mark 3, index November Uniform Five Three..."
...when you get incredibly annoyed when people say "Roger" or "Copy that"

[royboy]

Your wife asks you to txt her evey now and then to make sure your still ok.

[Burnie]

...when you give directions as "Left Left Left"...

....And the ex-traffic, initial pursuit trained special takes the next 3 left turns because "he wasn't expecting proper commentary from a newish special"

[Josh'Grizzly'Gregory]

You know when you're a BTP special (trainee in my case) when sat in training and the running joke is 'Check to see if he/she has a ticket' for the first protocol to go to when dealing with an incident.

[shortman]

When you walk into the IRT kitchen and the Sarge says For god sake sake; we can't have a special sat at our table.

[Reado]

........when topics get raised from the dead!

[Harrovian]

You don't know the code to get out of Custody. (Maybe applies to forces who have more than two nicks...)

[Llama]

........when topics get raised from the dead!

I am a defib operator...

[Iron_man]

When after dealing with a nasty rude customer in your civvy job you think to yourself "if only you'd spoken to me like that in my OTHER job..."

[trelloskilos]

While doing your shopping at the local Sainsburys, you've got one eye on the 3 underage youths hanging about near the spirits aisle.

[Enraged flea 1]

When you spend Time on Policespecials during your day job hours. Thinking I would much rather be arresting a criminal than stuck here doing finance.