Yes, my thinking, too. It was pure harassment by the force.
As training they showed us a video about an officer responding to robbery in progress. Friday evening, small High Street, he drove 30 in a 30 zone with siren and blue lights when a drunk 17-year-old stepped into the road a meter ahead of him. The girl was dead on scene. The force could not find anything to nail on the officer so they tried to retrospectively downgrade the incident from immediate to urgent attendance, because the suspected robbery turned out to be not be one. The judge in the whole proceeding told the police administration that they were cheating and disloyal towards their workforce and that they should be ashamed of themselves.
I do not remember why we were shown that video in training, maybe even the police management had learned something, but it ingrained one thing in me: "Stick to the damn procedures and policies, whether they make sense or not". Luckily, I am German...