Police Station - The 1970s (Met Police Film)

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  • Опубліковано 12 жов 2015
  • Dramatised account of a typical day at Gipsy Hill police station in London, filmed in the mid 1970s.
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  • @UnlikeVarjak
    @UnlikeVarjak 3 роки тому +33

    My dad is in this film! Still can't believe how young he looks in those days

    • @ClickChase
      @ClickChase 9 місяців тому

      Is he still alive

  • @69Dazzieb
    @69Dazzieb Рік тому +6

    This was such a laugh, my old stomping ground in the 70s and 80s, really took me back, had no idea Gipsy Hill nick was so active.....

  • @supertrinigamer
    @supertrinigamer 4 роки тому +17

    1:40
    "So I told him, becuase of the condition of the car, we better leave it there. So he said "Right officer, call me a taxi." So I did, I said "you're a Taxi' Sir."

  • @The_Greedy_Orphan
    @The_Greedy_Orphan 9 місяців тому +5

    4:50 "anyone can pop in at any time for advice, or just to say hello if you like"
    😂😂 I'm gonna pop in to my next station, go up to the front desk and just say "Hello".

    • @dieselfan7406
      @dieselfan7406 9 місяців тому +1

      You try and find one! Our ex-police stn is a children's nursery.

  • @nkt1
    @nkt1 2 роки тому +9

    Renee Macrae @0:55. Her body and that of her son have never been found. The prime suspect, her lover (and, allegedly, the missing boy’s father), was finally arrested in 2019 and is due to stand trial this year.

  • @jonrichards7678
    @jonrichards7678 10 місяців тому +10

    "Car parked for a while with a foreign looking bloke in it"....different times.

  • @eaglehead70
    @eaglehead70 5 років тому +7

    Can’t believe this is from my area, that’s when you would get a clip round the ear for been cheeky.

  • @garethhelliwell9736
    @garethhelliwell9736 3 роки тому +9

    This is better than traffic cops and police interceptors all rolled into one 🤣

  • @williammohan9784
    @williammohan9784 4 місяці тому +1

    and this is exactly how my first nick at Kings Cross looked and the way we all went about our business. Happy days, when London had a police force instead of the cast of a West End Show

  • @andyfarman7525
    @andyfarman7525 3 роки тому +7

    Gypsy Hill, the one-time boundary between The Met and Croydon Police.
    Croydon officers had their day jobs and only paraded at night, showing their appointments of two flintlock pistols and one cutlass each.
    A frequent cause of dismissal was that of pawning their issued pistols to buy grog.

  • @topbanana4013
    @topbanana4013 10 місяців тому +5

    so billy Connolly was the hand bag thief.

  • @swiftlydoesit8480
    @swiftlydoesit8480 7 років тому +13

    Only watched this to see what London looked like before I was born.

    • @th8257
      @th8257 11 місяців тому

      London was very dark and seedy in those days. It looked grim and dirty, but also had so really shocking things going on. Piccadilly Circus and all the major train stations for example were notorious for the very visible child prostitution that went on there. Lots of adult prostitution too. Police corruption was off the Richter Scale.

    • @alexbernard8907
      @alexbernard8907 9 місяців тому

      I was 10 years old myself in A.D 1976

    • @AB-kx4nc
      @AB-kx4nc 3 місяці тому

      Better ,trust me

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 8 років тому +14

    Ha ha ha! The photofit suspect looks like Billy Connolly!

  • @simonpearn479
    @simonpearn479 6 років тому +7

    15.41: Isn't he the guy who played the health inspector in Fawlty Towers?

  • @markbenjamin1703
    @markbenjamin1703 10 місяців тому +2

    Scrap PACE, Disband the IOPC, increase pay by £24,000, £10,000 'golden handshake' for any good shooting. Have Bail solely at the discretion of a panel of Superintendents

  • @diabolicalartificer
    @diabolicalartificer 9 місяців тому

    Times have changed, it was rough back then, policing has changed a great deal as has the demographic & politics of contemporary London. Whilst I have no love for the police on the whole, they did & do an unenviable job. It must have been hard to make a case without CCTV, powerful computors and all the modern tech that modern day police have access to. Thanks for uploading this gem.

  • @toppertruthio
    @toppertruthio 3 роки тому +3

    Note what the copper says@9:50,about two types of law.........shame they dont think the same now when dealing with tv licences

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 10 місяців тому +1

    5:10 In my City in 2023, seven police officers are assigned 24/7/365 to look after 45,000 people, even on sick days and holidays. Thats 6500 people per police officer,

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 10 місяців тому +2

    ( 4:27 ) Thats the inspector they picked up at 16: 30 ( 2:10 ) and took him back to the police station.... 😅😅 naughty police inspector.

  • @paddingtonfire
    @paddingtonfire 6 років тому +10

    The barrister at 16:10 was a food inspector in an episode of Fawlty Towers 🙂

    • @simonpearn479
      @simonpearn479 6 років тому +2

      'Basil the Rat' yeah I noticed him as well!

    • @ryanfrombrum
      @ryanfrombrum 5 років тому +3

      Well spotted! Mr Carnegie! :-)

    • @joslynanderson4681
      @joslynanderson4681 2 роки тому +1

      yes you are 100 percent correct mate love Fawlty Towers lol

    • @dfolt
      @dfolt 10 місяців тому

      An unmistakeable distinct voice. - "Norwegian veal?"

  • @mad-b264
    @mad-b264 4 роки тому +2

    Now i know where the idea for the Bill come from....

  • @wolflupus788
    @wolflupus788 5 років тому +3

    Man with a Handbag, AHH, gypsy hill police station now out of bounds.!

  • @cryptohunt2552
    @cryptohunt2552 7 років тому +39

    those were the days were coppers were coppers.

    • @bobSCOTT99
      @bobSCOTT99 5 років тому +4

      Crypto Hunt and the days before PACE

    • @richardcrighton8079
      @richardcrighton8079 3 роки тому +1

      bent as fuck and also hands off at the same time. i know whereof i speak.

    • @paulfrost8895
      @paulfrost8895 2 роки тому

      Bring em back to fight crime' give these hoodie yobs a good kickin.

    • @th8257
      @th8257 11 місяців тому +5

      Corrupt? Racist? Homophobic? Sexist? Seems like nothing has changed, if you ask me.

    • @cryptohunt2552
      @cryptohunt2552 11 місяців тому +2

      @th8257 No political correctness, no wokism, no recruiting or promotions based on skin color, gender or sexual orientation. Give me coppers who weren't afraid of the criminals, unlike today.

  • @danierus6238
    @danierus6238 3 роки тому +6

    Didn't know George Harrison was a bag snatcher

  • @jimmywormholes2053
    @jimmywormholes2053 9 місяців тому +1

    You Wanna See What That ManorS LiKe NoW........

  • @nicolek4076
    @nicolek4076 8 років тому +11

    Oh! The days before PACE when they carried truncheons.
    And a cameo of Irene Handl at the start.

    • @simonpearn479
      @simonpearn479 6 років тому

      I've a feeling that this lady appeared in Hammer House of Horror - 'The 2 faces of evil'?

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 4 роки тому +1

      Now they carry batons, tasers, cs sprays, are equipped with video cameras and wear stab vests, almost as heavy medieval knights armour

    • @nigelwake306
      @nigelwake306 4 роки тому +1

      Wasn't Irene Handel .. and police officers have always carried some form of Truncheon / baton / or asp

    • @MarbleyeRecords
      @MarbleyeRecords 4 роки тому

      Public health inspector from Fawlty i think...the lawyer in the court room.

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому

      before PACE, it was case law , common law (common law still applies ), criminal law act 1967

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому +2

    Law & Order of the Century.

  • @buskingkarma2503
    @buskingkarma2503 4 місяці тому

    Those lads in the public info video though!😂💀

  • @operatorjeffdeathstar7759
    @operatorjeffdeathstar7759 Місяць тому +1

    People in Canada NEVER in history behaved like this...

  • @elrjames7799
    @elrjames7799 3 роки тому +1

    The usual criminal response: deflect and distract.

  • @plumduff3303
    @plumduff3303 4 роки тому +6

    I was a copper in the 80s the shift pattern was a killer 7 nights and quick change over shocking

    • @marklaurie1
      @marklaurie1 3 роки тому +2

      Remember it well...a real bastard!

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому

      @@marklaurie1 do you ever carry a revolver ? model 10 i think the met issued back then

    • @MultiBikerboy1
      @MultiBikerboy1 8 місяців тому

      …if you can’t take a Jo..

  • @THX-2208
    @THX-2208 5 місяців тому

    This is a fantastic film, its like a carry on movie 😂

  • @KH-wy7le
    @KH-wy7le 3 роки тому +1

    Haha. St Martins Estate in Tulse Hill hasn't changed one bit!

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому +1

      except for gun fire, stabbings , beatings , drug dealing etc

    • @supersmileyclub544
      @supersmileyclub544 3 роки тому +1

      It's Kingswood Estate, right near Paxton Roundabout, bottom of Dulwich Wood Park, near Crystal Palace Tower.

  • @slobodanreka1088
    @slobodanreka1088 7 місяців тому

    15:35 "Allow me to finish, please...
    "Specifically, lack of proper cleaning routines; dirty and greasy filters; greasy and encrusted deep fat fryer; dirty, cracked, and stained food preparation surfaces; dirty, cracked, and missing wall and floor tiles;
    dirty, marked, and stained utensils..."

  • @influentialgurning
    @influentialgurning 9 місяців тому

    Fuzz Quiz: What was missing from the Oath?

  • @dodgydruid
    @dodgydruid 3 роки тому +2

    Shame the moment ruined with a young Hywel Bennett at the start lol

    • @dodgydruid
      @dodgydruid 3 роки тому +1

      And the Fawlty Towers health inspector lol Although that does look like Bromley Magistrates hehe

  • @paulbaumer8210
    @paulbaumer8210 4 місяці тому +1

    Gypsy Hill? Lol. Back in the days when people in that area still had Cockney accents......

  • @chopchung
    @chopchung Рік тому

    @3:10...."ELo, ELo, ELo....WHWGHT?......a bloke on the FIDDLE, no doubt!!". If you get the ref then you're as old as this film!!.

  • @TheNathtube
    @TheNathtube 6 років тому +1

    I want these villans lol

  • @michaelforde4373
    @michaelforde4373 5 років тому +1

    this is like teletubbies versus the sweeney but no swearing guv guv guv

  • @andrewcowley2691
    @andrewcowley2691 4 місяці тому

    A classic

  • @drcrusherdata
    @drcrusherdata 9 місяців тому

    the coppers wore much nicer uniforms then, than today

  • @georgecollie5875
    @georgecollie5875 5 років тому +4

    This was proper policing catching criminal..... this has all has gone now!!!!

  • @grahampearson5670
    @grahampearson5670 2 роки тому

    The cops having to deal with a lot of bad guys in this Met Police Film.

  • @chopchung
    @chopchung 5 років тому +8

    @3:50...."but the officer's already admitted that your head hit the wall as you tried to run away".That made me EXPLODE with knowing laughter!.Me and half the known universe!. He'll be falling up the lift shaft next!.Must admit though, coppers had something SERIOUS swinging between their legs back then.My dad and brothers were all long time criminals with mouth AND action to back it up...BUT ,when the coppers were at our house, as they were more than not, they always had a distinct RESPECT.Not for the corrupt system and establishment that PAID them to keep it that way (did any copper SERIOUSLY think he WASN'T working to keep it that way?)but respect for the fact that if they failed to show deference they would find themselves on the "wrong side" of PC this or Sgt. that.Not a place they wanted to be.I myself will admit that coppers back then were physically imposing MEN, with height, width and stature.Today they are just SO lightweight and insignificant.Theire MUST have been specific regulations to physical "presence" ,certainly to height....I have been watching an old 1960's series, Gideon's Way. Some of the uniformed coppers in that are immensely tall and broad, the comparison to today is remarkable.

    • @marklaurie1
      @marklaurie1 3 роки тому +1

      The Met was minimum 5' 10" when I joined in the 70s. Put a 6" helmet on top of that and you had one big fucker to deal with!

  • @supersmileyclub544
    @supersmileyclub544 3 роки тому

    Fun Fact @ 12:05 there's a nuclear air raid shelter underneath the grey block of flats. The block just to the left of the car.

    • @ClickChase
      @ClickChase 9 місяців тому

      Wow that's interesting. Can you still get into it? Or is it closed?

  • @chriswaring5565
    @chriswaring5565 9 місяців тому

    7: 11 HE,S NOT GOIING TO MUCH ICE CREAM GOIING AT THAT SPEED

  • @stephenfreestone7956
    @stephenfreestone7956 4 місяці тому

    In the 70s everyone would have been arrested and fitted up for crimes they didn't do.

  • @djlewis5149
    @djlewis5149 7 місяців тому

    Not a tattoo in sight

  • @richardcrighton8079
    @richardcrighton8079 3 роки тому +1

    hold on a minute, this can't possibly be mid 70s. 1971/2 is my guess. i used to live in gipsy hill and i know it well. always completely fkt. i know so much about this area. my family and i lived on roman rise just at the adjunct of central hill estate. we moved to cologne. who wouldn't? two daughters? no thank you. goodbye. some places are just cursed. it's not called gipsy hill for nothing.

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheWorldofGood79 they mentioned a *SPECIFIC* day and date, *_THURSDAY 6TH APRIL_* and with an R reg Austin allegro, I've worked out using old calendars, this is 1978, the only other 1970s year with Thursday 6th April was 1972

    • @paulfrost8895
      @paulfrost8895 2 роки тому

      I would think later ' like mid/late 70s' you got be at least 3 or 4 years off the mark ' mayby more.

    • @thebeastontour45
      @thebeastontour45 4 місяці тому

      I joined 1st August 1977 and am here being attested. I don't recall when it happened exactly but it was 'live'

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому

    Hallo Hallo. Now then what's going on here?

  • @mickeydodds1
    @mickeydodds1 9 місяців тому

    7:41 I sincerely hope no dog was really murdered in order to make this film.

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 10 місяців тому

    2:10 Seems like all low level crime they dealing with. Now in 2023 the UK police won't bother with any of this low level crime and take the day of with pay.😮😮😮

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 8 років тому +3

    22 million coppers! Ha ha ha!

  • @paulfitzpatrick2688
    @paulfitzpatrick2688 6 років тому

    They sound like actors

    • @paulb1967
      @paulb1967 4 роки тому

      Dramatised account, so yes, some of them are actors. The ones who sound like they are reading it, are likely the real coppers...

  • @awilderireland
    @awilderireland 9 місяців тому +1

    "A foreign looking man." Wouldn't be much of a description these days.

  • @jimmywormholes2053
    @jimmywormholes2053 9 місяців тому +1

    That STyle Of Police AlonG WiTh The Police STaTionS LonG Gone
    All It Is Now Is Politically Correct P.C.s Wearing That Months Rainbow Or Coloured Wristband....
    Metropolitan Police R.I.P.

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 10 місяців тому +1

    What is a police station ? As its now 2023 and police stations are long gone in England and are no more. Never seen police work or talk like in this video either. The video don't show the money taking and bribery, nor officers snorting coke and having non concentual sex while at work.

  • @SuperTed19021
    @SuperTed19021 4 роки тому

    Which exact year was this from?

    • @marklaurie1
      @marklaurie1 3 роки тому +1

      After 1976, PCs in white shirts.

    • @robbierobson3251
      @robbierobson3251 3 роки тому +4

      It can only be late 1978 or early 1979. The WPC on beat duty is wearing a "Smurf" hat. They were considered so awful they were withdrawn after just a few months.

    • @SuperTed19021
      @SuperTed19021 2 роки тому

      @@robbierobson3251 Thanks!

    • @SuperTed19021
      @SuperTed19021 2 роки тому

      @@marklaurie1 Thanks.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 7 років тому +1

    This is like a badly acted episode of "Z CARS".

  • @georgecollie5875
    @georgecollie5875 5 років тому +6

    This is how London was before we joined the EEC which is now EU....

    • @nigelwake306
      @nigelwake306 4 роки тому +2

      Nothing to do with that . I wish the police in the UK were more like the Gendarmes where I live .. ( 30 years Ex Met ) .. They don't mess around

  • @richardgeorge8612
    @richardgeorge8612 5 років тому +9

    exactly right when they were allowed to do their job properly no bloody political correctness

  • @rapman5363
    @rapman5363 Рік тому

    Pip Pip Cheerio
    Bob’s your Uncle

  • @ritchieblackmore5204
    @ritchieblackmore5204 10 місяців тому +1

    Those where the days the good old 70s, didn't have snowflakes then or arrested for hurty speech

  • @dominewimbury2039
    @dominewimbury2039 Рік тому

    Look like they were in a bleedin church at the start 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @dennisporter-avis7576
    @dennisporter-avis7576 4 роки тому

    It's a god awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair.....

  • @anthonyireland6108
    @anthonyireland6108 7 днів тому

    Back in the day when the police were real law enforcement officers , no nonsense policing, can you imagine the woke lot of police we have today behaving like this .LOL

  • @hunterluxton5976
    @hunterluxton5976 8 місяців тому

    The good old days when you could call black people " coloured ".

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 10 місяців тому

    4:50 😂😂😂 In 2023 if you do, and even if you find a open police station and go inside a say hello, they arrest you for anything they just made up, kick you around the cell a bit, and then take you somewhere and never to be seen again.

  • @mackenshaw8169
    @mackenshaw8169 3 роки тому +3

    When the police were worthy of the title and were not a pc para-military occupation force.

  • @julen9438
    @julen9438 4 роки тому

    Que cojones es esto

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 3 роки тому

      Los surburius del Sur londres
      The suburbs of south london

    • @julen9438
      @julen9438 3 роки тому

      @@Keithbarber oh okay

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 3 роки тому

      @@julen9438 google translate/traductor de google

    • @julen9438
      @julen9438 3 роки тому

      @@Keithbarber tienes un pokou de mokou de pavou paellou rico rico torros olé olé chouriso riko riko

  • @hughzzz
    @hughzzz 3 роки тому +2

    Ah how quaint! This is the usual propaganda they were just as bent then as they are now

    • @paulfrost8895
      @paulfrost8895 2 роки тому +1

      But at least they wernt tied down with paperwork.

  • @mohammadabdulsayedahmed289
    @mohammadabdulsayedahmed289 4 роки тому +2

    Where’s the diversity

  • @mohammadabdulsayedahmed289
    @mohammadabdulsayedahmed289 4 роки тому +2

    Where’s the diversity 😡😡

    • @supertrinigamer
      @supertrinigamer 4 роки тому +5

      It's the 1970's More exactly, probably 1974. Iran wasn't destroyed (yet) and other Middle eastern countries were fine. They had no need to move to England, and as we can see, there were a few coloured in the film. This was before immigration changed the country vastly.

    • @mohammadabdulsayedahmed289
      @mohammadabdulsayedahmed289 4 роки тому

      Super Trini Gamer racist white boi

    • @IslandWork1
      @IslandWork1 3 роки тому +8

      @@mohammadabdulsayedahmed289 This was before the sways of unchecked immigration under the guise of "multiculturalism" ruined the Capital.

    • @andyprice72
      @andyprice72 3 роки тому +2

      @@mohammadabdulsayedahmed289 so what are you a racist black boi ! What the guy said Is true , just because you dont like his answer doesn't make it any less true .

    • @BiignoseMiidget
      @BiignoseMiidget 3 роки тому +5

      There were black people in the classroom