Sorry, I was trying to be unoffensive while pointing out that those of us with law enforcement backgrounds, who have no use for the entitlement-demanding simpletons (who are completely without a clue as to what they're "demonstrating" for) masquerading as protestors, take offense at the last part of your post, in which you "appear" to impugn the integrity of the police ("I'd be rather bothered that the DPD officers have such a lack of clear distinction between their personal opinions and job responsibilities (regardless of WHAT they're *****ing about).") No doubt you didn't mean it that way, but that's how it was taken. I was avoiding being blunt about it because the mods jump on exchanges that go the flame-route with both digital feet.
As for the lack of technical skills on the part of some officers, i.e., not knowing that MDT "e-mail" is archived, that would be completely accurate. For some reason, people forget that at the worst possible times. They all have smart phones, so you'd think they'd keep the personal stuff on the private systems. But, noooooooooo....