Reading various 'police' blogs it seems the police are genuinely buried under red tape and initiatives.
It's obvious that our government delberately spin the numbers to reduce crime statistics so they can pulpit their usual rhetoric while they drive around in police cavalcades.
WE must take the gloves off the police, remove the endless laws and statistics gathering and move towards a much, much tougher criminal code.
That's going to mean upsetting the lefties by introducing things like hard labour gangs, real punishment for incarceration and finally for repeat offenders physical punishment.
In addition, at source we MUST stop giving these repeat offenders money! A while ago I was nearly mugged. The attempt was stopped by the timely arrival of a police officer who, when discussing the event with the eloquent youth "I ain't dun nuffin!" - for example - mentioned that "if Judge so and so saw him again he'd go to prison.
Now, my first thought there is, here's a violent thug who does this all the time, and sees no reason to stop. The judiciary evidently don't apprciate these dangers and so continue to release these people.
If that thug had been forced, the first time he offended into a year breaking rocks, digging holes or trenches in a foreign country the next time he threatens someone he should be flogged. No light warnings, no liberal release order just punishment.
What message do we send otherwise?
I don't buy the red-tape argument, I think it's down to the mindset. To them we are no longer fellow-citizens we're civilians, and we're to be controlled not patrolled.
On Thursday night my daughter and her mates went to a large organised bonfire, and the event was absolutely crawling with police. When it ended, the Police started photographing and videoing her and her friends because they didn't immediately leave. Yet there's never been any trouble at this event, and the end result is they've alienated a bunch of nice midle class kids.
As far as I can tell, most of the red tape is self-inflicted. Once they reach inspector it becomes a game where to get promoted they have to come up with ever dafter initiatives to make their CV stand out from the others.
So let's start by sacking half of everybody above the rank of inspector and see what happens.
I watched Iain Blair on Question Time this week. I was stunned at the smug, self-righteous right-on lefty bullshit that he spouted. It was if he had been either brainwashed or lobotomised. After that performance, I can now understand why the Police are so useless.
Overseas on BBC World tv is a programme entitled "Hard Talk" in which Stephen Sackur grills his "victims", often quite rudely. I do not know whether this programme is shown in the UK, but over the past 7 days we have had not only Ian Blair, but also Mandelson spouting their tripe.
Us expats do not have to pay the Beeb's licence fee, but we do have to pay our local satellite tv provider. I usually give "Hard Talk" a miss, but last week I did catch the ex-Aussie PM John Howard giving lefty Stephen quite a hard time. Quite made my day!
Do these "pay as you go police" have to be CRB checked? And they can get near to children right? A new QUANGO should be set up to register and regulate these things. They also need to have targets and box-tickers.
To: Regular Expat Reader
Yes, 'Hard Talk' is shown in the UK on the digital 24hr channel 'BBC News' - most people in the UK now have digital televison either through Freeview, satellite or cable. Regular analogue transmissions will cease in a few years so everyone will have to use digital if they want television.
Most BBC output in the news/current affairs areas (and probably others besides) is shared between domestic television and BBC Europe/America/Asia/World etc.
Like others here I thought Sir Ian Blair confirmed only that my view that he should have been sacked a long time before he was eventually forced out was correct.
One question springs to mind as to paying twice for "protection money" what if say the one house who doesn't cough up will these wannabe police turn a blind eye? A bit like before the fire service was government run let next door burn down as they didn't pay. I live in Thialand and feel so much safer here then I do when I have to return to the UK and by the way they lock kids up here. I know prison is no place to be and most certainly a Thai nick is one of the last places you want to serve any time. No anything and unless you have people on the outside your stuffed 40 to a room no cells here mate and no Open University courses and you have to work. Now perhaps instead of our dear leaders going on "fact finding" junkets to Barbados to see how they empty the bins there why not come here and do a bit of fact finding on the Thai penal system. For an instance a car got broken into in a supermarket car park last week it was front page news, all I can say to that in this was done in the UK they would have to have a very large front page.
£750 vs £176 (max)? Just proves that the market works!
And it is not just locally elected police we need - also locally elected everything - education, health, you name it!
And while we at it - scrap vat and have local taxes!
Bring on 'The Plan'
To be fair to Ian Blair, even he is saying that the police cost far too much and that numbers should be cut:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...save-
money.html
XX Roll on elected sheriffs. XX
Who are BOUND to be SOOO much more honest and hard working as the politicians you elect, aren't they?
Get REAL!
THAN the politicians that should have been.
"the fire service was government run let next door burn down as they didn't pay"
Did you learn this in a government run school? I bet they taught you that until government run schools no-one but the rich got an education right? Or until govement inspectors began inspecting ... wake up.
Not entirely relevant to this blog article, but on the motorway recently I saw a car driver being 'spoken to' by un-uniformed men wearing yellow high-vis jackets. Their car wasn't marked in any way to identify it as a Police car, although it did have some little flashing lights on the inside of the windscreen.
At the time I wondered what I would do if a plain car, with interior flashing lights, driven by two burly blokes, tried to make me pull over.
THIS IS SPARTAAAAAA!
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