Thieving Goes Unpunished. Lack of Police.

[Top Cats Hat]

1 minute ago, alchresearch said:

But I'm sure Labour will put a bobby on every street corner when they're in power won't they?

 

It depends on what the priority is.

 

Is it better to allow crime to rise and throw more police numbers at it or to reduce crime and therefore not require increased police numbers.

 

I would argue that tackling crime at its source would be a win-win policy.

[Pettytom]

1 hour ago, alchresearch said:

Labour said they would have also made big austerity cuts if they'd won in 2010 - and have prior experience of making big police cuts when they were in power:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/15/whitehall.westminsterandwhitehall

 

But I'm sure Labour will put a bobby on every street corner when they're in power won't they?

Am I right to conclude from this that you are in favour of the drastic cuts that the police have faced?

[Dales]

4 hours ago, WalkleyIan said:

Local inspector attended our forum meeting on Monday after a spate in burglaries and car thefts this spring.

 

I'm not going to go into the politics of it  (we all know about the massive cuts in numbers of uniformed officers) but he now has just two officers to cover city centre, upperthorpe, Walkley Broomhall, crosspool and Deepcar, not including the few PCSOs. When he joined the police 20 years ago he had a sergeant stationed in each area 

 

What did shock me was the time spent dealing with mental health and domestics. 60% of their time is now dealing with mental health problems picking up the sort of issues that used to be dealt with by the NHS. Made worse by a big reduction in the number of mental health nurses. 

 

The good news on our burglary epidemic is that 4 suspects have been arrested, 2 are on remand and 2 on bail and it seems to have calmed down

 

Not so good news, they won't be coming out to any car crimes unless there is the possibility of DNA evidence.

 

The advice was to keep using the online reporting systems even if an incident seem minor as it builds up a pattern for them to target resources. 
 

I work for the police, (albeit not a police officer) and it is true regarding the amount of mental health related incidents that police officers attend.  

[gomgeg]

18 hours ago, AlAN J said:

The police are too busy dealing with hate speech  on the internet. They also have a fondness of harassing people in pursuit of lawful activity. 

Like most other things  in the public sector it's easy to waste money then complain there isn't enough.

One Friday morning last year we joined the M18 from the M1 north about 7am.,  a couple of minutes later we slowed to a crawl then heard on the radio  a lorry had broken down towards the A1 junction on Thursday evening,, when we eventually reached there it was half  on the hard shoulder and half on the inside lane with 6 policemen stood around, 

When we came the other way about 7pm it was still there again with 6 police still stood around, the traffic stretched back nearly to the M1.

I heard on the radio it'd been moved the following day. What a great use of resources.

Edited May 15, 2019 by gomgeg
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[Pettytom]

24 minutes ago, gomgeg said:

Like most other things  in the public sector it's easy to waste money then complain there isn't enough.

One Friday morning last year we joined the M18 from the M1 north about 7am.,  a couple of minutes later we slowed to a crawl then heard on the radio  a lorry had broken down towards the A1 junction on Thursday evening,, when we eventually reached there it was half  on the hard shoulder and half on the inside lane with 6 policemen stood around, 

When we came the other way about 7pm it was still there again with 6 police still stood around, the traffic stretched back nearly to the M1.

I heard on the radio it'd been moved the following day. What a great use of resources.

You should offer your services to the police  as a consultant 

Edited May 15, 2019 by Pettytom

[gomgeg]

46 minutes ago, Pettytom said:

You should offer your services to the police  as a consultant 

I'm retired, so too busy.

I expect you're the same so you know how it is or you could help them out.

[WiseOwl182]

20 hours ago, I1L2T3 said:

You explained the problem right at the beginning.

 

Too few police.

 

Unfortunately people only realise this when they are impacted themselves or see unpunished crimes taking place.

 

Then they complain 

And yet they still find plenty of time and resources to investigate, say, silly pictures of monkeys on Twitter.

[Top Cats Hat]

1 minute ago, WiseOwl182 said:

And yet they still find plenty of time and resources to investigate, say, silly pictures of monkeys on Twitter.

Posting pictures of monkeys on Twitter isn't illegal, so I'm not sure why the police would be investigating them. 🙄

[WiseOwl182]

1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:

Posting pictures of monkeys on Twitter isn't illegal, so I'm not sure why the police would be investigating them. 🙄

Me neither, thankfully they dropped it before wasting any more time on it.

https://inews.co.uk/news/danny-baker-racist-tweet-royal-baby-police-investigation-dropped/

 

If only they'd pay as much attention to reports of theft and burglary as they do to silly Tweets.

[I1L2T3]

1 hour ago, WiseOwl182 said:

And yet they still find plenty of time and resources to investigate, say, silly pictures of monkeys on Twitter.

It’s part of new patterns of crime. They have too much to cover.

 

Whats this about a monkey though?