Crying Foul on Police Cuts
It was inevitable that the Police would say that budget cuts would mean less Police on the Beat.
I can’t see how they can actually achieve that round here, as you never see a policeman. And when you report something, like I did when an idiot nearly caused a serious accident, they refuse to turn up.
I remember when C was a governor of a University, a high profile policeman was also one. He turned up at dinners and meetings with his driver. He was one of the few who could drink. Who paid for that driver?
\And then take Police IT systems. Most are over-budget, every one is different, so they can’t talk to each other. We’ve seen the consequences of that!
Just imagine if say M&S used different methods in different towns and cities.
Before they cut visible policing, the police must get their systems into the twenty-first century.
They should also stop the scandal of early retirement on pensions way in excess of any, that most people will ever see.
And as we’re all in this together, shouldn’t all of their vehicles and equipment be British-made where possible?
The Anonymous Widower 
This is an interesting comment, because it is pretty much the opposite of my own experience of the police. There have been several occasions on which me and mine have been victims of crime, and the police have been brilliant, and were particularly good on the couple of occasions the victims were my then teenage daughters.
But I live in a town on the outskirts of a city, and there is a local polic station a mile from my home, and a much larger one serving the town, a mile in the other direction. We see PCSOs on a regular basis walking or cycling round.
I do agree about the systems though, they really should all be able to connect with each other.
Comment by Liz P | June 29, 2010 |
In Suffolk we don’t have much crime, but when we have serious things, like the Ipswich murders, they get their man.
But then East Anglia has learned to live off the scraps that governnent deigns to give us for many years. Take our road network, Great Yarmouth, one of the poorest towns in England, with high unemployment has no decent road to Norwich let alone the rest of the country. Only an idiot would ever start a business there! AT LEast the East of England Development Agency, which costs £25m a year in staff costs along is to be shut down. The people of East ANglia will know how better to spend that money, than ever the government will.
But we create the wealth in that Cambridge probably creates more jobs than the rest of the country put together and yet the government won’t properly fund transport links. All they gave us was a guided busway which is a year late and millions over budget, when everybody knew a better and cheaper option was to reinstate the railway from Cambridge to Huntingdon. Electrified it would also have helped to relieve congestion on the trains from Kings Cross to the north. We’ll be paying for NuLabor’s mistakes for a hundred years.
Comment by AnonW | June 29, 2010 |