The police force was here to serve, the police service seems not to be

Metro report that:

"A builder who severed an artery in his arm was refused a lift to hospital by police because they didn't want him to bleed in their car, he claims.

After Alan Cox fell into a window, a passing ex-paramedic gave him minutes to live and called 999.

But when police arrived, they said it would be 90min before an ambulance got there and they couldn't take him because the car would have to be cleaned.

'I'm disgusted,' said Mr Cox, of Monmouth, Wales.

He was taken to hospital by his son. Police said lifts were 'not a primary function'."

That last quotation says it all - "not a primary function", presumably they think they would be better employed booking motorists for exceeding the speed limit by 3 mph or mothers for dropping an apple core in a park or anything other than serving the public and detecting real crime.