Policing 'at Risk' As Officers Deal With Terror

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40350748

Successive Police Chiefs have been complaining for a long time now, about Police numbers, so does sacking those 20,000 Police staff seem like a good idea any more ?

[gulliver1]

Policemen on the beat were the best ever. then there was the RBO, RESIDENT BEAT OFFICER,many of them who lived in the community , they new what was going on in the area, who lived where, strangers in the area strange cars parked up etc,etc, it made sense, bring them back. Well said Mickey 7/12.

[Khandro]

You could re-instate the 20,000 police officers, arm them all with automatic weapons, post one on every London street corner and what is to stop a Jihadi carrying out an attack somewhere else, say Swansea?
Father Hamel had his throat slit as he said mass in his church in Rouen, way outside of Paris.

"More police!" gets votes, as the scurrilous Corbyn has shown, but the real issue is tackling the source of the problem, i.e. radical, and often not so radical, Islam, - the enemy within.

[ToraToraTora]

Hire them back mikey, it's only £600k using Labourithmetic!

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// We now have major security issues and that situation didn't arrive yesterday. ///

Oh yes it did, thanks to Labour who let vast numbers of people into this country from foreign climes.

We would have enough police, enough housing, enough school places, and our NHS wouldn't be in the state it is today, if it wasn't for Labour's failed multicultural/multi-national experiment.

[albaqwerty]

Thanks YMB, although I know which version I prefer and it ain't the IRA :-)

[gulliver1]

How can you hire them back , when they have not been recruting them, according to certain posters on here . Its just torithmetic!!!.

[emmie]

you would be surprised how few boobies on the beat i see, except at major rail stations and Buck House, HOP>

[youngmafbog]

Bobbies on the beat are a nostalgic thing of the past. What use is some poor copper chasing some criminal in a Jag, moped or even a push bike on foot?

Whilst you may not see Police on the beat, particularly in cities, there will be Police about that you dont see. Add to that the fact terrorism and cyber crime does not happen on the street and it is easy to see we have moved on.

[Islay]

Those officers were not sacked, it was done through natural wastage!

[mushroom25]

// you would be surprised how few bobbies on the beat i see,//

Anyone who'd like to meet a policeman, just google and download Daesh's latest news letter. free with every visit - an opportunity for you to buy a new front door.

[youngmafbog]

But they will take their shoes off and leave the Alsation outside.

[scooping]

The Left have used every excuse in the book to knock the police over the last 50 years. Now we are supposed to believe they're on side. They're just playing politics. John McDonnell wanted to disarm them five years ago.

[cassa333]

I have never seen a policeman round our way. There are two police community support officers always wandering around the town but even when we had a couple of todos at the local community centre it was only the PCSOs that came out.

If I didn't know any better I would say it is just them at the offices for the whole of the town and surrounding area!!!

Having said that, I don't feel less safe.

Someone else earlier in the thread said something I agree with and that is That the cumbersome paperwork, that takes up about 75% of their tim, needs an overhaul.

[cassa333]

mikey444 // choose another word if you like, it makes no difference, less police is less police, however you phrase it.//

That is true, however the words you use make an accusation that isn't there and deflects from the reality of the question.

[vulcan42]

Of course, mikey "forgets" to mention that the police in towns and cities have been replaced by CCTV, a much more efficient system then deploying men on the beat.

[EDDIE51]

'Beat' Policemen have not existed for many years. They patrol in cars now. They can cover a far wider area with the same number of officers.

[Jackdaw33]

LOL @Emmie @11:45. I don't see too many boobies either. Must be a shortage of Fallen Madonnas.

[EDDIE51]

My son 'house shares' with a policeman. His policeman housemate says it takes 4 hours of paperwork for every arrest he makes !

[Khandro]

gulliver //then there was the RBO, RESIDENT BEAT OFFICER,many of them who lived in the community , they new what was going on in the area,.........bring them back.//

How can a policeman walking around the streets know what's going on in a resident jihadi's mind when their own family and neighbours don't?

[EDDIE51]

^ I have to agree with that. Every time there is a 'terrorist' arrested , the TV interviews with the neighbours say that ' he was just a normal nice guy' we had no idea he was a terrorist !