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Will The Last One Out Please Turn Off The Lights – UK PLC Is Heading For The Badlands

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a devout cynic I shuddered mightily when the announcement, followed by the reality, that we were going to (and have done) lose 17,500 Police Officers under Dave Camoron’s ‘Reforms’. That was bad enough and I don’t need to go over old ground, we have all seen the reality, the constant ‘Crying Wolf’, Cuts do […]

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Just Open Another Box

Reading Time: 2 minutes If ever I needed proof that the government have succeeded in hoodwinking the great British Public it was served up in abundance on last night’s BBC1. One Show. Firstly we had Richard Garside from  The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.  I assume that this is some kind of Think Tank that the government has commissioned

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Is Theresa May Completely Out Of Touch With Everybody?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Have her advisers and researchers let her down? Is she poorly briefed? Maybe she just knows better than everybody else and we have yet to realise that. Maybe she is rigidly toeing the Party Line and doing & saying just what Mr Camoron tells her to do and say. One thing that is for certain

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Mutual Aid

Reading Time: < 1 minute in the week that sees the Annual Police Federation Conference in Bournemouth I was reading Chris Hobbs’ powerful letter to Theresa May  After exchanging a bit of banter with Clive Chamberlain it hit me.  It has often been quoted that cuts to the Police Service have already amounted to losing the equivalent of Devon&Cornwall, Dorset,

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If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It–What The Country Voted For

Reading Time: 4 minutes In Camoron’s first incarnation as the Nation’s Prime Minister he set about reforming the Legal System system, amongst others.  In doing so he aimed to save about £450 Million from Legal Aid bills.  This led to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO coming into force. This Act, which personally I

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Come On Cruella – Explain It To Us

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ii have heard many eloquent people highlighting the problems faced by Police and Public alike caused by the government’s reckless policy of repeatedly cutting the Police Budget. I know that this problem applies to other PublicSectors also, but today I am concentrating solely on the Police. It is frequently stated within the Police Service that

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Have Your Say, Tell Me What You Think–The Results Are In

Reading Time: 2 minutes A while ago I posed the question – Would you be willing to pay a small amount more each month to help safeguard our Public Services? I posted a short online survey for you to tell me your views, and the results are in. Shown below are the actual responses received, minus names and email

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