An incident happened on Saturday night, one of my daughters got caught up on it as she left work and was unfortunately assaulted, now the police received a number of calls about the incident, there was a group of around 30-40 late teens beating up 2 men in their 40s, it took the police half and hour to attend!
My question is, do you have police patrolling your streets where you live like we used to have years ago? If you don't would you like to see them back patrolling the roads where we live and work? |
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My mate is a copper. On a night there can be as few as 13 of them out covering a city the size of Coventry.
The fact is that all are 'tasked on' within 15 mins of starting their shift and they don't get ease back until the very early hours...sometimes not at all
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over a year ago
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Very rare do we see a real copper walking a beat around here. Plenty of the pointless PCSO's out there as a huge deterrent to criminals...............NOT! |
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My daughter is fine, suffered a broken finger and a fist in the face, but she's fine, I think the 2 gentlemen came off much worse. As you can probably tell we don't have many bobbies actually patrolling the streets on foot, but as this incident was happening around 50 or so officers were at a different location attending a peaceful protest.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't see them round where I live. Perversely, that's because it tends to be a very safe and quiet area - if I did start to see them around a lot I think it would worry me! Hope your daughter is ok. |
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I know from chatting to one outside a club that they are always below staffing levels and cover huge areas now. So the only time you see them is reacting to something.
Feel sorry for them most of them want to do a decent job but cut backs and bullshit dodgy ones have done them harm.
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
When I was working in the West Country earlier this year the local authority and PCC in that area were discussing how to make reductions to their budgets. The option they favoured was reducing beat officers.
Policing budgets, like everything else, are being cut. That will reduce numbers locally, whatever you hear from central government.
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Oh no! Only just saw this. Glad she's ok. Ive not seen a copper just patrolling for years. An ex of mine got beaten up in the street at night years ago and the police took ages to turn up then tried to say he'd done it to himself! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't see bobbies on the beat but I live near the police and crime commissioner and she walks her dog past my house. She's much scarier than any bobbies  |
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