More police on the beat please?

Question

Less thugs on our streets.

Answer 1

Yes I agree. I ran into several street-robbers today. A girl at the Railway Station had her purse snatched-three yobs were involved.

Answer 2

Effenel, saying you don't wish to cause offence then saying we're pretend coppers with stupid outfits is a bit of hypocrisy don't you think?

I'd like to be offended, but I know I more than pull my weight on a Friday night. Last week I detained two yobs for urinating in the street and they got fined £80 each. Assisted with an arrest, confiscated about 60 bottles/cans of beer and i've towed away an uninsured car, all in the same day.
I know i'm helping make my local area a safer place, I can't speak for the PCSO's where you live, but where I live we all get stuck in with the cops the best we can.
As for doing all the paperwork and red tape, I think you'll find that if one of the PC's gets an arrest or needs some paperwork doing for a job then we'll help them with that as well if we're not busy, and any fetching/carrying of prisoners/evidence gets done by us as well.

Not to mention we also attend burglaries, car accidents, and any antisocial job we get.

p.s. i've detained quite a few people, some of them for violent disorder. Never needed handcuffs, never needed a baton, but then I am a big guy :oP

Answer 3

If there are any PCSO's (Pretend Copper, stupid outfit) reading this, I do not wish to cause offence, but I would rather have a REAL policeman patrolling my area.

Okay, PCSO's do deter some thugs, but be real. Many of them in my area know that they have no real power and do not have the capacity to arrest, ie, Hand restraints, baton, defence spray...

Let the PCSO do all the red tape paperwork and let the Police Officer get on with the job they signed up for.

Answer 4

yes I would agree with that the streets are become worse every day by gangs of yobs hanging around the corners spitting, and giving abuse to passers by.

It has become so bad that I never go out at night unless it is really urgent what a world this has become. The Police should also be in pairs as thugs these days dont fear the police.

Answer 5

Yes more "real " police on the beat and less of the pathetic attempt by this Government to police on the cheap by bringing out more and more "plastic police" ie community support officers who earn almost as much as regular police but have little or no powers. It's time this government valued its police men and women and stopped trivializing them.

Answer 6

New Labour have allowed a whole generation of cowardly thugs to grow up unchecked. Don't expect any help from the Government - their kids go to safer schools and they live in protected areas.

Answer 7

Yes get them out of the cars and back onto the streets it was safer then now you rarely see a policeman on the beat anymore.

Answer 8

As a former officer I can say that everyone wants more on the beat but the reality is that outside of town/city centres beat officers are not able to respond to crime immediately and that is what the public want- Instant response, not to be told that an officer will be there within the hour it takes them to walk to the incident.

Answer 9

Sounds like a good idea to me.

If only the government would do what is necessary to allow police officers to get out on their beats and deal with what they know matters, instead of just making the situation worse. eg. Once and for all actually getting rid of crippling bureaucracy and paperwork and not just talking about it and abolishing the obsession of performance indicators and sanction detections that distort the nature of policing.

Answer 10

We need more Police on the streets. Less red tape from the government so we can actually spend time on patrol. spending six hours on a poxy shoplifter is not efficient enough.