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Policing 'at Risk' As Officers Deal With Terror

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mikey4444 | 06:36 Wed 21st Jun 2017 | News
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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 ?
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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.
08:51 Wed 21st Jun 2017
I think sacking is the wrong word.

I would happily pay more tax to fund policing.
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Ummm...choose another word if you like, it makes no difference, less Police is less Police, how ever you phrase it.
They are not recruiting them.

I don't think serving officers are being sacked.
Police forces merged to form Police Scotland here a few years ago..what a mistake that was...closed many local call centres so emergency calls are being taken far away and police being misdirected because of lack of geographical knowledge..many calls logged but not acted on or prioritised properly like the couple who died after their car left the road, calls made but nobody attended for 3 days by which time driver dead and passenger died in hospital....never see a bobby on the beat now...staff deployment needs looking at
// Police is less Police, how ever you phrase it.//

oh I see when Elizabeth II came to the throne 1952
it was because her father had been sacked from the job and wasnt there anymore

hmm looks we're heading for a normal day on AB
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Ummm....OK, if it will please you and perhaps others, I withdraw the word sacked.

But we still have 20,000 fewer Police Officers than we did in 2010. Whether they retired and were nor replaced, or simply left is immaterial.

We now have major security issues and that situation didn't arrive yesterday. The link explains that while Officers are being diverted onto counter-terrorism, ordinary day-to-day Police activity is at risk.

Like you, I would gladly pay more tax, for proper Policing to return, just as I would willingly pay more to fund our health service.
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Agree Minty...the same thing happened here in Wales.
I remember that road crash very well.

I think we need to get back to basics. Nothing deters crime quite as well as a Bobby on his regular beat.
Recent events might make them rethink things although I'm unsure what effect more police could achieve.

If I put a bomb in my bag no-one would give me a second look. More police won't stop terrorists.
agree Ummmm.. there will always be a way and no amount of uniforms will stop it !
Didn't a top cop say the terrorist only needs to be lucky once, we need to be lucky all the time.
//the same thing happened here in Wales.//

policing in wales (unlike in Scotland) is not yet devolved. and is still in the hands of the four territorial forces that have existed for some time.
Successive Police chiefs are clambouring on the band wagon to get more cash, doesnt mean it will be spent on 'officers on the beat'.

20,000 Police officers across the UK is not likely to make a great difference; you are not talking about 20 000 in one area. In addition Policing needs to change to target the new big areas of crime such as cyber, so you wont have somone on the beat for that.

If the Police chiefs are so concerned perhaps they would like to give up some of their 'perks' that are not needed and are a drain on the Public purse.

Personally I would like to see the paper work issue resolved, arresting someone can take an officer of the street for hours these days and in the vast majority of cases that is simply wrong.
albaqwerty

I think that quote came from one of the IRA guys.
originally that is.
Mikey, don’t you think it’s even more worrying now that resources have been withdrawn from society as a whole in order to give extra protection to mosques?
If they are lucky once then that is one single event. Success once doesn't mean winning overall. Their aim will inevitably fail.
//Nothing deters crime quite as well as a Bobby on his regular beat.//
That's should do it, what we need is Dixon of Dock Green and his son-in-law Andy.
Policemen on the beat won't deter suicide bombers, or those who are intent on crashing their cars into people.

Of course they will Naomi, (in Mikeyworld ;o)
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