Edmonton cops banned from swearing

stupid, as if the police don't have enough to worry about...now they can get written up for swearing....BS!

Did you even read the article?

Anyone who has a scanner knows how the cops talk about civvies.

Most shouldnt be cops.



The old "blue shield" raises it's ugly head again.
This is the type of policing we should be trying to get rid of,not encourage mon ami.

You taking french lessons there ziggy ? mon ami... Je vous aime

Dude,when Im in remote camp in the Arctic it's all french peeps.
I'm about the only western Canadian there except for a few vancoverites.

I tell a surveyor one morning to have a good day and the next morning he has it translated to "put some goodness in your day" but it's all ok because they used to send supermodels to camp for HR work from Montreal.

I learned one french and one Inuktitut word every morning Kenny,I only remember the bad ones now but was pretty fluent in french in grade 6 according to the report cards my mom dropped off the other day.

I'll say it again,the french have literally "OWNED" the arctic since the 60's so all this talk of sending icebreakers up there makes me laugh.
So some call them cheese eating surrender monkeys which is quite deragotory compared to what I've seen.

Mon ami=My friend,a term I used in the arctic very often for allmost everyone I met and the majority are french.

This a no-news story. Surely the police department's code of professional conduct and the Alberta Police Act already address this without spelling out "swearing" explicitly. The same is true of all professionals; teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc. They would be written up for swearing as a violation of professional conduct without a specific 'no swearing' policy.

Considering the civilians are paying their wages,we should have a say and a no swearing policy is ok by me.

I've heard enough "shit" on my scanner the last 30 years to know it's needed,every little old lady in this town has one and hears every broadcast they make on their radios.

Taken from a blog in the Edmonton Sun, about this issue. I tend to agree with 'Chris'.

Chris June 6th 2009, 11:43am

As a member of the police service, I think we should be more worried about doing our jobs and doing them for the right reasons then getting in trouble for using a word. There is a time and place for everything and sometimes swearing is needed because that is the only think that our 'customers' understand. Chief Boyd, come back on a ride along like you did when you first got here. Make it for 4 or 5 days and not just one. And see if you can do it without screwing up and breaking policy like the first time.

When dealing with street sometimes you have to talk street....All I know is I wouldnt last 5 minutes, sounds about as pathetic as the Swear jar we all used to have as kids...

Ya that worked out f&*$ing brilliantly now didnt it?

The policy is fine with me. I just see it as redundant. I'll have to talk to some cops to see what they think about it, but I don't know how they couldn't, at least, support the principle. Would they want to take the stance that they should be ALLOWED to swear? I doubt it. Plenty of people already view cops as Draconian-guard fascists. I suspect the cops' response will be something like "We are professionals and are expected to conduct ourselves as such at all times without a no-swearing policy." That response would be perfectly reasonable to me.



Do they really cuss up a storm on the radio? Maybe that should be where they look at tidying up their act.

I think its kind of impossible to try and regulate behavior when it comes to human emotions under high periods of emotional stress and anxiety.

So in the pressence of a cop if he had to confront a knife wielding dude who's as high as a kite and If he yelled at him to "LAY THE FUCK DOWN!!!"

The last thing I'd be doing is filing a complaint agaisnt him for his bad language. Maybe cursing at times might help in diffusing a situation, sometimes it may not.

Dude,when Im in remote camp in the Arctic it's all french peeps.
I'm about the only western Canadian there except for a few vancoverites.

I tell a surveyor one morning to have a good day and the next morning he has it translated to "put some goodness in your day" but it's all ok because they used to send supermodels to camp for HR work from Montreal.

I learned one french and one Inuktitut word every morning Kenny,I only remember the bad ones now but was pretty fluent in french in grade 6 according to the report cards my mom dropped off the other day.

I'll say it again,the french have literally "OWNED" the arctic since the 60's so all this talk of sending icebreakers up there makes me laugh.
So some call them cheese eating surrender monkeys which is quite deragotory compared to what I've seen.

Mon ami=My friend,a term I used in the arctic very often for allmost everyone I met and the majority are french.

Kewl.. Je commence � vous aimer

The policy is fine with me. I just see it as redundant. I'll have to talk to some cops to see what they think about it, but I don't know how they couldn't, at least, support the principle. Would they want to take the stance that they should be ALLOWED to swear? I doubt it. Plenty of people already view cops as Draconian-guard fascists. I suspect the cops' response will be something like "We are professionals and are expected to conduct ourselves as such at all times without a no-swearing policy." That response would be perfectly reasonable to me.



Do they really cuss up a storm on the radio? Maybe that should be where they look at tidying up their act.

Get a scanner,you wont believe what you hear.

Ya I'm sure many criminals will respond better to "Would you please sit in the car", "I think banging your head on the window may cause you to injure yourself", " could you please stop trying to kick me and fight me while I put these cuffs on you"