Jack’s Wednesday blog post is a brief departure from Wendy’s Scottish rambles – –

A lot of police activity today – up and down our street and both ways on the cross street just down from us. Sirens sounding and lights flashing!

The street outside our house is an alternative to and parallel to the main road out of town to two Interstates, has no stop lights so a frequent getaway route for speeders and other bad boys.

But when town cops, county cops and State cops plus unmarked vehicles all start whizzing past you know something more than speeding is going down.

The last time something like this happened it was a bank robbery – –

But not this time – A sex offender with a girl in tow – –

But what I find interesting is how many law enforcement agencies there are around and how quickly they can coordinate. State Police, County Police, Town Police, not to mention park police, college police and university police. Above all them is the FBI etc.

In Scotland there’s just the national police (carefully controlled by the UK government) and various agencies based in London (not so carefully controlled).

It’s reassuring to know that we are safeguarded in our daily lives, but I’ve also experienced the 6am loud knock on the door and the strange noises on the phone.

This time it all finished peacefully thank goodness – –

In my perambulations around the world I’ve often noticed the various levels of policing – the ones with baggy trousers that stop you jaywalking – and then the ones with neatly pressed uniforms that carry machine guns and drive Harleys! In France the ones to avoid are the CRS – they are the ones with machine guns – but that’s another story – –