So resisting arrest is all they have got?

[Soph0571]

"If anybody has any doubts about that police officer, they should question the officer on what they're doing and if there are any doubts they should ask to speak to the control room on that officer's radio or call 999... '' The Policing Minister ladies and gentlemen... call 999 to report your own arrest - just in case...

Sarah Everard case: people stopped by lone officer could ‘wave down a bus’, says Met

The force encouraged members of the public to challenge lone plainclothes police officers if they are ever approached, asking where the officer’s colleagues are, where they have come from, why they are there and exactly why they are stopping or talking to them.

It also suggests verifying the police officer’s identity by asking to hear their radio operator or asking to speak to the radio operator themselves.

If a person still does not feel safe, the force said they should consider “shouting out to a passerby, running into a house, knocking on a door, waving a bus down or, if you are in the position to do so, calling 999.”

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/01/police-must-win-back-public-confidence-after-sarah-everard-case-says-minister|]

They knew the date that Couzens was going to be sentenced. They knew that as part of the sentencing hearing we would hear how he used his status as a police officer to kidnap rape and murder Sarah Everard and this is all they have got??? Flag down a bloody bus? Seriously? That is the plan to stop this happening again... you could not make it up. Resist arrest everyone, I am sure that will work out well for you!

[marble falls]

1. Here the cop would probably shoot you for yelling, knocking on door, waving down a bus ...

and skip free.

[Soph0571]

2. Well they would not shoot you over here of course

But they would taser you in a heartbeat

[marble falls]

3. There's got to be a better way to get a grip on a police force than knocking on doors, being ...

... shot or tasered

[Emrys]

4. If I was a decent copper, in the Met or wherever, I'd be livid at my leadership:

Sarah Everard murder: Police boss Philip Allott comments spark anger

A police boss who said women "need to be streetwise" about powers of arrest in the wake of the Sarah Everard case has apologised for his remarks.

North Yorkshire commissioner Philip Allott sparked fury when he said Ms Everard "never should have submitted" to the arrest by her killer.

Murderer Wayne Couzens, a Met Police officer, had falsely arrested the 33-year-old in order to abduct her.
...
"So women, first of all, need to be streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested. She should never have been arrested and submitted to that," he said.

"Perhaps women need to consider in terms of the legal process, to just learn a bit about that legal process".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58762029

He's now apologized, but this whole tenor is taking victim-blaming to a very dark place indeed.

After this, any charges of resisting arrest levelled at anyone could be subject to dismissal in court.

How about police officers and those high up in the hierarchy take a lead by stopping covering up for their colleagues who are homicidal maniacs, in potential or reality? That would at least be a start.