Too many police chiefs? - A review of police strength and costs in England & Wales 2010
INSPECTOR GADGET
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You can still be reassured, I think, that our ability to respond to level two criminality – what would be classified as serious crime like rapes, stabbings and murders – is and will remain very good, because we find ways of dealing with that sort of stuff. But in terms of keeping the lid on day-to-day ‘volume crime’ – the anti-social behaviour, the criminal damage, the assaults, the drunkenness, the violence, the car theft, the problems that you’re most likely to suffer from… Being ex-Army, I’ve learned the hard way to make the most of what I have in front of me. We get on and do our jobs, whatever the manning levels. Somehow, we have made it happen without major outbreaks of live anarchy. How much longer we can continue along this road, I really don’t know.
The frustrating thing is, the answer is reasonably simple. Get police officers out of cushy offices and 9-5 jobs, onto the streets.
Spend the money wasted on PCSOs on more proper cops. Cut paperwork and stop massaging figures. Stop chasing targets and trying to socially engineer a new country. Concentrate on criminals, missing kids and road accidents.
But maybe that’s all too revolutionary for modern tastes”.
Both Gadgets’ book, blog articles and regular features in the media make compelling reading, telling it “as it really is” not how the spin doctor senior officers would have the public believe it is. There are many others out there now, all writing anonymously, many injected with the gallows humour and sarcastic edge that front line officers need to survive each tour of duty (speaking from experience). Police blogs we view every day are littered with hundreds of examples, from officers of every force, detailing the impact of real life situations worsened by a lack of resource and out-of-touch management teams who are more ensconced in the cocoon of their own self importance than delivering common sense value for money policing. in this essential area of response policing. We have many hundreds of similar entries collated in our files should anyone wish to view them
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