Humphrey Bogart said:This is a mistake on your part. An Officer has a commission and that means something. So yes, you should take an Officers word at higher face value than a homeless person.
That being said, if said officer is found to be lying, acting unethically, etc.... Then the full brunt of the law should be brought down on them.
Having worked with LCol Wellwood, I can't imagine what would set off such a mild mannered woman?
So let's break down your statement here.
I respond to a domestic disturbance, husband holds a commission wife is an NCM. Wife says x happened, husband says y happened....because he holds a commission; immediately I'm to take his word as absolute and tell the wife she must be lying due to a lack of that piece of paper?
Or let's try this......I respond to a disturbance at a bar. Staff say one of either 2Lt bloggins or civilian joe blow broke something.....bloggins says joe blow did it and joe blow says bloggins did it.....I should, according to you, immediately place joe blow under arrest because he doesn't hold a commission scroll?
Frankly your statement is one of the dumbest and most arrogant things I've ever heard in my life, and if that's your true attitude, frankly I feel bad for you lessers...I mean subordinates.
Loachman....I am in no way disagreeing that the MP appeared to have acted like an idiot and have not once defended his personal actions. What I have defended is that he did, whether anyone wants to accept it or not, act within the parameters of the law.
Frankly, I don't know why he would act the way he did. I have found in my time on the job that it takes an equal amount of effort to be polite to someone as it does to be rude and I have found the former to be infinitely more effective.