Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s a question I’ve been asking myself since 2010 to be honest. My opinions have never been favourable to the Tories, but apart from the constant, ongoing, reduction in officers I’ve never really put many numbers to it. I fear that is about to change, but to be easy you, I hope to achieve most […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The date is March 2010. David Cameron has yet to win the General Election and form his ‘victorious’ coalition government. What does the State of Policing look like? Firstly, and, easiest to answer, we have a full compliment of Police Stations, Canteens, Helicopters, Dogs and Horses etc etc. Nobody has yet started to sell them
Reading Time: 2 minutes Never forget that we have to do more with less, it is the en vogue diktat. Speak to any Police Officer, Doctor, Nurse etc and they will tell you how they are doing more. How do we know that they are doing it with less though? Because the government tells us? Not exactly. The latest
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is Sparta. If only, but it is about numbers, so if you don’t like numbers you’d best leave now. Firstly, the 300, but actually it’s closer to 500. Gideon’s announcement said that the government would now protect the Police, a complete U Turn, brought about, in no small way I’m sure, by his and
Reading Time: 2 minutes I recently contacted Northamptonshire Police with a Freedom of Information Request, asking how many Police Stations had closed in the last 5 years, and how many were envisaged to close in the coming 5 years. They answered the 1st bit perfectly and for that I thank them. When it came to the second bit, they
