The Police are now turning their spin doctors onto the CUTS. They want to continue with their big TROUGH of money given to them by New Labour.

The fact is that EVERY part of the economy is being cut. Not least the 15 billion off the Welfare State ( which is hitting the poor )

This is a great opportunity for the Police to get rid of those officers who have had loads of IPCC complaints against them or who spend most of their day in cafes.

It will also stop the Police wasting their time chasing personal vendettas and concentrate on serving the public and preventing and crime.

Returning the Police back to their 1997 budgets ( updated for inflation ) will return us back to the position where the Police are servants of the state - and hopefully the "Police State" Robocop activities of the last 13 years where it was usual to see "lock downs" of hundreds of Police hitting ordinary people are over.

We do not need this many police. In the last 13 years London has suffered ONE terror attack. In the years before we often had more than that each year. The work-load if smaller. The only offences that are going up are the "Sex Offences" because they need just allegations and no evidence.

Home security - better car security - higher standards of living - CCTV which is everywhere now - have led to massive falls in crime with only anti-social behaviour and stabbings/gun crime rising. Much of that due to the DRUG trade which the Police seem powerless to do anything about and most killings are between gangs and the public dont get involved.

After seeing what has happened in the press about the "Bent" cops and their violence towards the public just this week the Police wont get any support at all for being protected from the cuts that the rest of us have to put up with.

The more they "Moan" the more you realise how "special" they have been treated during the last 13 years and why they need to be cut down to size and the POLICE STATE dismantled.

and now the slogan

"Christmas for Criminals"

LOL

The Police Spin Doctors should be sacked first - they really are a waste of money. How many other organisations would employ THOUSANDS of Press Officers ( The Met has more than the Government ) at the Public Expense ( hence the media is dominated by crime stories and the TV channels show wall to wall Police reality programmes ).

The Police can easily cut overtime payments and save 10% of the cuts. The other 15% could be achieved by stopping cold cases ( 10% ) and natural wastage ( 5% ). I doubt we will see more than 10,000 jobs go in the Police which is less than were threatened in the CONNAUGHT collapse just yesterday.

The Police think the are ABOVE THE REST OF US - but they need to take the cuts as well. They are not that important. Many people never have recourse to use them. If magistrates closed down unruly pubs and nightclubs and enforced the licensing laws then 20% of their overtime could be cut. Only one area of crime is rising - the false allegations of sexual crimes ( crime survey showed this yesterday ) and so it is the right time to cut anyway because the UK is obviously improving with the immigrant population making crime less likely ( 2 million extra immigrants and yet overall crime has been falling for 20 years )

The Police rush around with sirens on - but rarely seem to arrive at events until they are over. Perhaps they just need one dummy car per force to roar around lights on horns blaring all day long to keep up the illusion......most Police in this area are to be found in cafes, chip shops, and occasionally in Police cars parked up eating. Each time an incident has happened in the last 12 months the Police never arrived - only on Christmas Eve last year did we see ambulances at a street incident outside a pub and then the Police arrived about 10 mins later.

CCTV has got rid of the need for Police - that was the original idea. CCTV has stopped criminals on High Streets and in sensitive areas. Now there are millions of CCTV cameras - crime is going down - it has worked. Hence the Police doing cold case work instead of proper Police work.

The Police can be cut - they are a luxury because they are paid for by TAXING the people - and therefore if the people want cuts they want to see their money used first for welfare and then essential services like rubbish collection and libraries and education. The Police comes very low on the list of essentials. It is something we can afford IF we are well off. Only rich people employ "security" and that really is the way things are. A small professional Police force using technology could easily do the job that the bloated Police Service is delivering.

Too many officers - the tech has shown that we dont need as many Police as we did back in the pre- CCTV era in the 1970s and 1980s. We need to get back to those sorts of numbers - and a time when PRE THATCHER when our police were the envy of the World.

They should see the cuts as an opportunity to sort out the ROGUE elements that are in the Police. Some say these elements are minority - well this is a great chance to rid the Police Service of 10,000 rogue officers and staff.

Any Police who have had 3+ conplaints to the IPCC in a year should be considered for redundancy first - any Police who have more than 3 complaints about rudeness in the last couple of years should also be considered for redundancy. This would keep them all on their toes - if they thought that being rude and bullying the public might cost them their job. Politeness costs nothing - even when dealing with criminals - teachers deal with criminals every day in the classroom and you dont hear of them being rude or violent ( apart from the one bloke who was bullied and had a breakdown )

TIME FOR CHANGE !