Teaching pigs how to tell porkies
(Story story night…?)
As they say, ‘You can’t make it up’.
Although, in this particular case, you can – and some do:
“A police force spent £100,000 on ’storytelling sessions’ to encourage senior officers to share their sucesses. The sessions organised by Greater Manchester Police were supposed to improve policing, with the lessons learned pasted on a cartoon storyboard to form a ‘business strategy’.”
Granted, it is quite a bit of money – but money well spent, I’d say.
I mean, we know, from the Birmingham Six fiasco in the seventies to today’s headlines about the lying Metropolitan Police commander, that your average English copper likes a good story…
… and who can blame them? Making it up as you go along is so much easier than real detecting…
… and much more entertaining than trying to find real evidence, of course.
As my examples of old, let’s say inventive police work shows, however, some cops are not really good at it, which can (and in these cases did) lead to all kind of, quite costly, embarrassing situations.
So, it was a wise decision by Greater Manchester Police to send these senior officers to this storytelling course. We can only hope that these sessions indeed help to ‘improve policing’, the next time they want to stitch someone up.
After all, it’s not much fun to be a pig if you’re no good at telling porkies.
(Eyes that know the darkness in my soul, indeed…)
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