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Richard Brunstrom, the speed-camera loving Chief Constable of North Wales, has stirred up more controversy by suggesting the word ‘police’ should be removed from the force’s cars.
Instead he wants the vehicles to be marked only with the Welsh language equivalent – ‘heddlu’.
“I would like to remove the word Police from the back of the police cars. I think it should be Heddlu,” Brunstrom told a conference on language ‘reconciliation.’
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Blimey, this guy is priceless.

Oppression!  He's talking about Wales, not some third world African country. Unless things go on in the valleys that he's not telling us about!

I don't know about getting rid of Sir Ian Blair, they should have targeted this guy.

Iain Blair changed the slogan and font on every single one of the Met's police vehicles from:

"working for a safer london" to...... "working together for a safer london"

No mention of the cost of this pointless excercise.

'Brunstrom: remove word ‘police’'

- tut tut. This should read 'Brunstrom: remove'.

And please, remove this creature's appalling picture from your website; it looks disturbed. 

Over the past year I have driven in 9 countries, including Wales.  One of the first things that I do automatically is note what colour the local Rozzer's cars are.

It does not matter whether the local Rozzers call themselves police, garda, polizei, polizia, αστυνομία, or heddlu the bottom line is that if you have been naughty and broken a local traffic law and your rear view is full of blue flashng lights, your nicked, in whatever lauguage!

You cannot say to the Greek Rozzers, I did not undedrstand what "αστυνομία" meant, you'd just look a complete ***!

"English speaking army of occupation" says Brunstrom.

Don't worry Brunstrom, i won't be spending my English money in Wales anymore, i'll holiday elsewhere.  And don't forget Brunstrom, Wales gets £9bn per year more than it pays in taxes from the British government, most of this coming from the English.  Without us, you are fxxxxd!!!

You would be inexcusable mate, since greek patrol cars have "POLICE" written all over them. :D

It strikes me that if in Wales, the Welsh language has as much right to be written as English, then surely the cars should have both words. If for instance a traffic police/heddlu officer attended an accident where one or more drivers didn't speak Welsh, then without the patrol car saying Plice, they might assume it isn't, and thus not co-operate.

It stikes me as a simple attempt to raise yet more revenue from the declining number of tourists visiting the region. These measures could well tip the balance between catching a ferry from hollyhead to flying to Ireland instead. I don't expect to remember the word "heddlu" when I drive in the UK.

I've got a better idea. Why not remove Brunstrom from the police?

Joke.

....and they say the police are short of money. perhaps they should save some by getting rid of this idiot. I rather hope that he may tomorrow admit that he was joking, but based on past performance of this man, I suspect that he is being quite serious. At least whilst he's making idiotic statements like this he's not working on more ways of extracting money from his local motorists.

Brooklands:

"English speaking army of occupation" says Brunstrom.

Don't worry Brunstrom, i won't be spending my English money in Wales anymore, i'll holiday elsewhere.  And don't forget Brunstrom, Wales gets £9bn per year more than it pays in taxes from the British government, most of this coming from the English.  Without us, you are fxxxxd!!!

 

By Jingo(ism)... " Twice the brain" and "Halfwits" spring to mind...

Don't worry about the "Heddlu", They'll only pinch you if you drive like a complete tool and/ or ignore signage like "Ysgol" or "Araf".

Wales has many amazing roads and these are pretty good value in terms of tax, especially versus fags, fuel, beer or even 500 billion quid.

Watch out for speed cameras though, and as a Fuzz said recently, "If you don't notice the Fuzz in your mirror or ahead if you, you probably deserve to get done for careless driving anyway."

Have you ever seen armies of frustrated Welsh cross the border in search of Great Driving Roads?

If you are intent on boycotting Wales, go to the Peak District or Northumbria instead... Devon's beautiful too.