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6 Kommentare
Lovely sentiment, and it’s all achievable, as is every single thing they say about police reform.
But it’ll cost them, a lot, an awful lot.
Police have been under funded for nearly two decades, selling off their estates to try and keep staffing levels to maintain basic functioning. The uplift to get back to say, 2006 levels of funding (in line with inflation) would be enormous, and that’s not even including the pay and working conditions of police officers and staff back to those levels.
We have a great police service, but like everything in the public sector, it was asked constantly to do more with less.
On a perfect day it’s very achievable but with current resourcing, demand and economic support it’ll never happen.
„LBC can also reveal plans are being drawn up to drive an increase in the number of volunteer police officers being hired, after a 73% reduction since 2012.“
It’s a nice idea but the las person I knew who was a special left because in his words „After the third time of being threatened with a knife I thought it’s not worth it to volunteer“
I also heard someone on LBC talking about trying to get people with tech and financial skills to volunteer which I question how? Don’t these crimes take a large amount of time to investigate?
So we are supposed to be focusing on neighbourhood policing. But we are also now focusing on Emergency Response. This is despite decades of reduced funding, falling staff levels, and the selling off of police stations.
Unless there are plans for massive financial investment and recruitment, these „targets“ will just be another stick to beat police with when they don’t meet them.
*“Do more with the same“*, as always. A lot of money needs to be spent to make this achievable, which it is.
I’m not sure about 20 minute rural response times, though- in some areas, that would require cars just sat on standby an appropriate distance away.
It’s a reversion to the Blairite obsession with „targets“. I heard that dread word on the radio this morning.
There’ll be a buggered up flip-side to this as always.