Young people were throwing bottles at a Land Rover vehicle in Lisburn last Saturday when an officer used the tannoy (loudspeaker system) to play the tunes. Apparently this is considered inappropriate even though it worked. Personally, I would have tasered all 15 of them for fun, but cops can never seem to catch a break. That's why this story gets a "Bad Cop?" with a question mark.


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A police spokesperson said an officer had used humour to defuse the situation and the trouble had stopped. However, senior officers are believed to have spoken to the officer involved. Police were called to Glasvey Drive in Twinbrook on 22 May where they passed a group of about 15 youths who began throwing bottles at their vehicle. A spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: "An officer used the vehicle's tannoy system to play music to the youths in an effort to use humour to defuse the situation. "The youths stopped throwing the bottles. However, police accept that this was not an appropriate action. "The officer has been spoken to by a senior officer in order to establish the circumstances of the incident."

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