They haven't even finished with the cuts yet, London are supposed to lose up to 19% of the force, and there was already a rise in violent crime as a result even before the riots :/
I'm not blaming the police who are obviously seriously outnumbered and doing the best they can, but this is just pititful when you have a full-blown riot going on and the most they can manage is this
["London are supposed to lose up to 19% of the force,"]
Seriously? lol Morons. Well maybe that won't go through now. They need to take policing lessons from Rudolf Giuliani and sentencing lessons from the US too.
Boris Johnson has now said they need to think again about cutting the London force further, but apparently the Home Offce is still saying the reductions in the Police budget are manageable. I don't even know what to think any more
They said they were ready to deal with it last night, and instead it seems it got worse than ever with three men trying to protect their property being deliberately run over and killed :/
"The urgent need to take action to address our budget deficit is clear from events across the world right now. The reductions in the police budget for the Spending Review period are manageable. There is no question that the police will still have the resources to do their important work. At the end of this Spending Review period, the police will still have enough officers to deploy in the kind of numbers we've seen in the past couple of days."
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Date: 2011-08-09 03:56 pm (UTC)I'm not blaming the police who are obviously seriously outnumbered and doing the best they can, but this is just pititful when you have a full-blown riot going on and the most they can manage is this
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:55 am (UTC)Seriously? lol Morons. Well maybe that won't go through now. They need to take policing lessons from Rudolf Giuliani and sentencing lessons from the US too.
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Date: 2011-08-10 10:34 am (UTC)They said they were ready to deal with it last night, and instead it seems it got worse than ever with three men trying to protect their property being deliberately run over and killed :/
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Date: 2011-08-10 10:53 am (UTC)"The urgent need to take action to address our budget deficit is clear from events across the world right now. The reductions in the police budget for the Spending Review period are manageable. There is no question that the police will still have the resources to do their important work. At the end of this Spending Review period, the police will still have enough officers to deploy in the kind of numbers we've seen in the past couple of days."
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