Police - should they have stepped in

[JackDanielsU]

Last night, around 8pm we saw a gang (6 or 7) of youths assaulting 2 others. in the middle of the town centre

What annoyed me was as that was happening, 3 uniformed police officers (and they werent the Community support plods) came out of the local Burger King with their meals, we informed them that there was an assault happening, and they walked off saying they call it in.

I know their safety is important (yet they had their CS spray and truncheon in their belts, so being outnumbered, they still had an advantage?), but surely if theyd made their presence known, the attackers would have scarpered...yet they walked away, and left the 2 guys to be attacked more...what would have happened if their injuries were severe.

Ive emailed the essex police feedback service and Im interested too see what they say, but what do you ABers think.

[New Judge]

It seems in many areas individual police officers are now unable to take calls for assistance directly from members of the public. A week or two ago a story appeared in the press (no, not just the Daily Mail) explaining that a member of the public had gone into a police station to report an alleged assault which was still ongoing. He was told that the desk could not take the details and that he should phone it in so that the “control centre” could authorise whatever action they deemed necessary.

Although many individual officers do their best, the policies developed by senior managers are fast making the police “service” a laughing stock.

[ChuckFickens]

They probably have to go and do a health and safety assessment before they can step in!

[dh001]

Hi JackDaniels. I would also be interested to hear any response from Essex Police (if you dont mind).

I totally agree with New Judge, there are in fact many excellent individual officers that really do try and do their best but are quickly becoming a minority (or have) who, unfortunately, do not get any recognition by the useless leftist pie-chart bureaucrats, i.e 'senior managers'.

The only way to get on in todays modern police is to either be a Lesbian outreach officer, a gay liaison officer or the best way, a diversity champion, so dealing with the incident you describe jackdaniels would be of no career value to officers of our todays politised police force and therefore