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07-05-18, 01:57 PM | #41 | |
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07-05-18, 03:57 PM | #42 | |
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Firemen have done a lot of moaning about cuts, but truth is the number of fires has dropped dramatically in last couple of decades and like any other business if trade drops off factories and stores get closed and people get laid off. I learned in many years of business that if you double staff numbers you don't get double the work done, it is a decreasing effect. it is not only front line police that have been cut, in fact it has disproportionally affected higher ranks. https://www.channel4.com/news/factch...ers-since-2010
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Problem you have in Englandshire is finding a political party worth voting for.
Labour are a complete waste of space, they would far rather abstain than actually do the job of opposing the tories. Corbyn might talk a good game on a few topics, but talk is all there is. |
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I can only say what we saw, and taking half an hour to answer the call button in reception is hardly acceptable, and plenty of police cars on the car park - not out on patrol. As I said numbers do not make for more productivity.
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08-05-18, 09:42 AM | #46 |
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I find it almost incredible how everyone is an absolute expert on services such as the NHS and Police. Like more or less anything in life, keeping your uninformed opinions to yourself is probably best. Until you've walked a day in their shoes, you simply have no clue what they're up to or whether it's safe to say they're wasting time, etc.
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^ Yup.
And besides, anecdote is always preferable to proper research and statistics. |
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There was a time when Police were there to serve the Public (who pay their wages) somewhwere along the line something has changed - may be about the time when Maggie T recruited a whole heap more, upped their wages by a very large amount and used them as her private government army to quell the strikers (mainly striking miners) with infiltration, phone tapping, brute and overwhelming force.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...thin-extremism And it is not anecdote if you are there at the time, only if you get information second ot third hand, but go ahead and call me a liar, I am not easily offended.
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Might not have crossed your mind but there may have been more important police work afoot than answering your desk call?
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Ok you didn't get served for half an hour, but maybe the desk clerk was on their rest break and due to cuts, they only had one on duty. As for the rest of them, their duties do not include answering the front desk, its a specific job, assigned to a specific person. As in a hospital, a brain surgeon doesn't do gynaecological work Maybe the others were custody staff, traffic, intelligence officers, or other non frontline staff. Maybe they were frontline staff in for rest periods or shift change over and been to their briefing? Just because the car park was full, doesn't mean there were loads of coppers in the station hiding under their desks
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