My own Triumph was a modern one, sadly now written off after a bunch of thieves did a very
cack handed attempt to steel it smashing up the disk, steering lock, front wheel, probably headset etc in the process
When I was a young copper in the early 90s we had to park in public, but after hours when the 9 to 5ers who did nothing useful went home we were allowed to move our cars into the station car park.
A large and well built Sergeant known as Lumpy besause he was an ex boxer and his face was a bit, er, lumpy, a pre-PACE copper having joined in the mid 60's so not the sort to feel inclined to worry about giving a villain a slap, went to retrieve his car and found a thief sat in the drivers seat desperately trying to hot wire it.
The poor hapless thief was a clumsy sort and in his haste to escape fell down several flights of imaginary stairs. When Support Group arrived to take the prisoner away he then proceeded to then fall down several flights of stairs in the back of their van. After he'd been sentenced and was being led down to the holding cells it seems he fell down the stairs again.
He was arrested many times after that, but never again for car theft.
I must admit I was a bit taken aback, and even wondered if it was a professional standards stitch up to see if I'd report it. I did consider it, but I'd have sooner or later fallen down the stairs myself. By the early 00000s the pre-PACE dinosaurs had eithe4 retired or been promoted out of harms way and I don't recall a summary punishment happening after that, thankfully. That not to say villains didn't get poked, but it was usually righteous, an officer defending themselves or another and it's hardly the officer's fault if they were better at it.
