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  Do you remember the days like I do, when as kids we were taught by our parents to respect the local bobby. He was to be feared and respected and if ,God forbid, he ever knocked at your parents door you shook with fear in case Mrs Higginbottom had reported you for playing football in 'her' street?
  
  Well the law is no longer held in such high esteem and one of the reasons could be forces are sacking almost 160 officers on average each year after misconduct hearings held in private, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.
  
  Forces have dismissed 477 officers in private hearings over the course of three years, following offences ranging from perverting the course of justice to criminal activity and breaches of discipline.
  
  Cases reportedly included a Kent officer telling a racist joke and getting a written warning, and a Hertfordshire officer demoted after derogatory remarks and obscene gestures to a colleague. Two officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland were dismissed for being drunk while armed.
  
  Simon Harwood, the officer who inadvertently killed Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests is to face a disciplinary hearing.
  
  In this instance the old saying that all publicity even bad publicity is good publicity just doesn't seem to be appropriate.

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