Have the police lost the city streets?

[bobthebandit]

With 3 more fatal stabbings in London in as many days have the police finally given up?. Gang culture is now endemic, but the police seem to do nothng.

[VHG]

Police used to patrol the streets to stop crime. Now they only seem to react AFTER the crime has taken place.

Not sure if this is becuase of less police, more crime, too much paperwork, or too easy just to sit in their warm car or police station waiting for a call.

I am sure we have all been upset by the cases on TV of harrasssment by youngsters to vulnerable people which had been reported to the police for months or years but not acted on by the police.

Only when somebody dies do the police seem to take an interest.

[askyourgran]

Its the same in West Yorkshire, the city centres are not places to go at the weekends, we could do with a dedicated yob force and to hell with the human rights of these animals. The thing that annoys me most are the people who assault the firemen when they are called out, some protection should be given to them.

[Canary42]

No - parents have lost their kids.

[ELVIS68]

No, the city streets have lost the police

Most police stations open 9 til 5 so if you call 999, chances are your local nick will be unmanned and they`ll send a patrol car from the nearest nick open, hence the 45 minute wait

[ummmm]

Bloody hell. What kind of places do you people live in?

[Sandy-Wroe]

It's not the police that have lost control of the streets, it's the politicians. Drunken yobs in the High St at the weekends, teenage yobs torturing innocent people in their own homes, all down to the lack of interest from the politicians.

[ummmm]

I haven't got a clue what you're on about...lol

There are plenty of police that patrol our streets.

[welshlibranr]

We rarely see any police here, we do see youngsters drinking alcohol on a Friday night, and causing problems quite often, and this is a small seaside town! I hate to imagine what is happening in the cities of our country! Why are these youngsters out till all hours? where are their parents to allow it? they are obviously not supervising their kids well enough!...............................

[ELVIS68]

At work the other week some pikeys were disturbed robbing the store room of copper wire, they threatened one of our blokes with a metal bar, the police were called and they turned up 50 minutes later, bearing in mind the local police station is less than half a mile away.

When asked what took them so long they said they were from Hertford police station which is 20 miles away

We got done again 6 days later and they nearly killed a security guard in the depot next door when he tried to shut the gates as they drove away and knocked him flying

Again there was a 45 minute wait for the police to turn up (Ambulance was there in 5 minutes), these people know there are no police in the area so it`s a head start for them

[ummmm]

Shocking ELVIS. I've phoned the police a few times and they've been there in minutes. Maybe it's the benefits of living in a small (ish) town.

[vulcan]

Birdie is certainly right about excessive paperwork. A few months ago I found a watch. I took it to the local Police station where there were two Policemen sitting[why can't a civilian do this sort of work ?].The Policeman who dealt with me had to fill in three forms, that's ridiculous for one item of lost property.

[trt]

You seem to only see the police when a crime as been committed, then there are loads of them. I remember when that kid got kidnapped in Pakistan, there were 3 police guarding the front door of his parents for days, WHY 3?

[ummmm]

I live in Northampton. I don't know if our police get better funding but they are always out and about. Day and night.....and the ones I've dealt with have all been lovely.

[Zeuhl]

Thanks Birdie

Great insight. I understand it's similar here on the south coast.

If there are only 5 coppers on duty and you make a 999 call - if there's already an incident of some kind underway you've had it! Don't hold your breath waiting for the cavalry to arrive.