Are Police Cuts Going Too Far?

[Milvus]

http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=44139

[Ken4155]

YES

[Psybbo]

Yes, if they have to rely on those sirens :-)

[Buenchico]

Our police simply need better training. I suggest bringing in this guy to teach them a thing or two:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13687742

[tonyav]

They certainly are, get some of those Filipino traffic cops in.

[-Talbot-]

Faker than something that's fake.

[DTCwordfan]

No, they are misjudged.

Down here, I would integrate Devon& Cornwall, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset & Avon into one South-West force and do away with all but one of those chief constables (maybe one deputy), those finance managers and teams, those PR managers and teams, those HR managers and teams, and any other overheads.....split the money to the front line and savings. And an important one that can go are all 5 Commissioners and bureaucratic teams.

They're also looking at closing stations down here en masse in favour of more mobile units and so they should, the stations to be sold off - with technology, why are all these stations needed when work can be done more efficaciously from home or the car via pc......However, what do you use an ex-cop shop for?

[DTCwordfan]

I guess putting a red light in the lamp outside and using the cells for paying customers could be one means of making the buildings pay?

[magpie]

i think that the number of private citizens illegally owning guns is going to increase dramatically, if they can't rely on the police they will take matters into their own hands.

[Peter Pedant]

give them a job !


I can only do a tesco nixdorf product scanner - boop ! boop !

[beegeebee]

It is rather strange that not one, of the much lauded Police Commissioners, have even attempted to reduce costs and increase effectiveness but have simply continued that which existed but, at a greater cost.

[jourdain2]

I think that magpie is right. Uses for ex-police stations? Rural housing, but retain the blue lamp and insist on a hotline to main police services so that it is still a point of public resource.

[EDDIE51]

It is not as bad as I have experienced. Back in the 1970's I lived in Zambia.
One night I was woken by the sound of someone trying to break in.
I phoned the police ( luckily the phones were working that day) the officer told me '' sorry sir, we have no cars that are working, but if you can drive over we can send policemen back with you''
I resisted the temptation to say ''OK I'll just ask the robbers to wait here while I go and collect the police''
Instead I phoned my mate who was also the driver of the volunteer fire engine. He jumped into the engine and drove it over with it's 'blues and two's' going. That was enough to scare the robbers off.

[david small]

Private security firms will proliferate accordingly. Vigilante groups will slowly gain public acceptance. If the police aren't fit for purpose, what's the purpose of paying the upper echelons such ludicrously salaries? They hog, and clog a once exemplary civil service.

[viv41]

'Are police cuts going too far?' YES !