Time for the Metropolitan Police to brush up their grammar

Now call me pedantic if you like, but there are just some occasions when you make sure your spelling and grammar are up to scratch.

Like job application or a letter to someone important.

Everyone lets the odd typo through, and usually it doesn’t matter when it’s a note to a friend or a casual email, we have all done it.

But sometimes there is no excuse for shoddy English. A piece of writing is often the first indication you give to the quality of your work and your attitude to how you are perceived, so if you are proud of your work, you make the effort to get it right.

Presentation, spelling and grammar reflect  professionalism be it in a letter, job application, business proposal or, in this case, public notice.

I spotted this in the window of a police station on The Isle of Dogs, in Tower Hamlets, London.




































I was so astounded by the glaring inaccuracies that the actual content of the notice became irrelevant. 

Have a closer look. Spot anything?

There are five spelling/ grammatical errors. And what’s going on with the ‘Am’s and ‘Pm’s and random capital letters?

Come on Metropolitan Police, the least I would expect a professional body looking after our safety and welfare, to be able to do is spell.

After all, if you can’t get the little things right how on earth can we trust you with the bigger things. 

You know, like arresting the right person, getting registration numbers right when you are issuing speeding tickets, matching DNA profiles, that sort of thing.

I would have thought being a police officer requires just a bit of accuracy and attention to detail.

If the boys in blue can’t cross their ‘t’s or dot their ‘i’s, how can we trust them to deal with sensitive evidence or getting names right.

At the very least know how to spell the name of the area you serve.

“Isle Of Dog” ?????

There are concerns the police could one day have unrestricted access to our private details including DNA profiles - do you know how many letters are in a DNA sequence Mr Policeman?

Get one or two of those out of place and I don’t need to point out the catastrophic consequences.

I would not put a notice like this up in my window to sell a car if you want to know the truth, I would be too embarrassed.

So the very fact it appeared proudly displayed in my local police station leaves me lost for words.

Come on Met, get your act together.