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Topic History of: interesting Police report
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The Cat |
Ok Zooloo here goes.
A regular Bobby on the beat has these advantages;
Much more knowledge of his local people and area than other officers. He can provide first hand insight into cases involving people on his beat, which saves CID from having to operate cold without such insight. Such fist hand info can help to save time and to prevent the wrong person from being arrested, thus saving the expense of trying the wrong person and paying possible future compensation. The Beat Bobby knows who's away on holiday. He knows who the local kids belong to, etc. etc. If he does his job right then he grows extra eyes and ears in the shape of the community, so he is effectively more than just one man. He bridges the gap between the police and the public. He acts as a visible and present deterent to small time and chancer criminals, and can provide local info on the more professional criminals.
I recall an ex-inmate on this board saying how criminals themselves say that the onlt thing which really deters them is a visible police presence.
Also, the local people feel more secure knowing that the Beat Bobby is about his business. The elderly especially appreciate him.
Good policing is about detering crime and giving the public a sense of security.
I'm old enough to remember a regular officer patrolling my part of town. He did make a difference - or I should rather say that we noticed a big difference once he'd been taken away.
What's your alternative, Zooloo? Keep the police plugged into computers and relying on psuedo psychologists, policing from a distance without any real hands-on experience of community life?
Police on the beat is very effective. |
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In The Know |
The Cat wrote:
I'd make all police officers do a sensitivity course then put them back into the community, pounding regular beats where they should have been all along. Local policing with local knowledge, backed up by a much smaller national investigation squad. Not all intelligence is found in computers and databases. Local knowledge is priceless. The police need to get their hands dirty (in the most honourable way) serving the community which pays their wages.
I agree entirely.
Nice to see that hidden in the report is the statement that "police numbers are not sustainable" - if we start getting rid of a few I think the rest will pretty soon wake up and start behaving themselves ! |
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zooloo |
The whole Bobby-on-the-beat thing is a nonsense.
It's keeps being trotted out as if it is effective - it's not. Ask the proponents of it to back up what they believe and rambling vacuous half-arsed anecdote is the response. |
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The Cat |
I'd make all police officers do a sensitivity course then put them back into the community, pounding regular beats where they should have been all along. Local policing with local knowledge, backed up by a much smaller national investigation squad. Not all intelligence is found in computers and databases. Local knowledge is priceless. The police need to get their hands dirty (in the most honourable way) serving the community which pays their wages. |
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In The Know |
From BBC News -
A draft report on the future of policing in England and Wales suggests that civilian staff can perform many duties better than police officers.
The comments appear in a wide-ranging review by Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
The report, to be published later, proposes major cuts to bureaucracy and says only about 10% of policing tasks require fully-trained police officers.
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As the police don't bother any more with matters such as burglary etc - it would be interesting to know what Ronnie Flanagan thinks police officers SHOULD be doing ? |
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