Shame they can’t be this dedicated when it comes to corruption or gangland shootings.
edit – oh hi there police sub.
There’s an “n” missing from the headline.
Biggest issue is that local policing teams are dealing with vast quantities of Domestic Abuse. Huge amounts. Like 50% of daily crime reported is domestic related. Add in the huge pressure to deal with all allegations of rape and sexual assault (huge amounts of which are historic) and you start to see how utterly fucked the police are.
One of the main reason new recruits leave is because they join thinking they’ll be chasing the big bad guys, but end up visiting arguing couples all day.
That’s not me saying DA and sexual assaults aren’t super serious – they are incredibly harmful. But how on earth do you police this?
These crimes are also incredibly hard to build a case around, with victim’s often ultimately withdrawing support (sometimes for understandable reasons) resulting in thousands of hours of work often wasted. And even if it gets through CPS, the chance of a successful conviction is low. Really low.
Then you have legislation telling police to attempt to get more convictions for coercive and controlling behaviour. But the CPS threshold is so high and the chance of conviction so low that in doing so you fuck up your positive outcome rates. It’s madness!
And don’t even get started on the fact pretty much all mental health issues now fall to the police. Right now there will be hundreds of police officers babysitting those in mental health crisis because the health system has utterly failed.
The whole thing is an utter mess and totally unworkable. All that happens is that resources bounce to whatever the latest public concern is. It was rape and sexual assault following Sarah Everard, but I assume it will now shift to neighborhood Policing and burglary. Then in a few months something else will kick off and resources will be directed there.
All the while armchair critics will bash the police, using any opportunity to throw mud. Morale falls further and more and more experienced staff and officers leave.
A few years back the average experience of an officer attending a local callout was around 5 years. Now it’s about 1.5 years. Their Sergeants are now typically very inexperienced, as are inspectors. The whole command and control structure is buckling, and even in the senior ranks there’s little resilience.
I honestly don’t know how you can even begin to fix this mess.
The worst thing about this situation is that it’ll take a decade to fix. Not just in terms of police numbers, but in reinstating all the early intervention programs that helped reduce and keep crime down under the last Labour government. Those programs are a long term investment that worked, before this government scrapped them all. It’ll take years to see the benefit from them again, if we’re even lucky enough that the Tories see sense and restart them.
Convenient excuse unless they can show a clear link between budget cut and crime detection. Every project / department manager in the world has used budget as an excuse.
Tories repurpose the headline for their election leaflets: Police chiefs blame Tory cuts for fall in crime
In other news, water is wet
Look there’s clouds in the sky. It might rain it must be the Tories fault.
Policing needs an overhual anyway, they spend to much time sat behind speed cameras (ban thr ability to give fines and only points and these cameras will vanish) , arresting people for thought crime and online insults when there are bigger fish to fry.
Yes the torys have made it alot worse for the police but the police are also to blame here.
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Less police officers results in less police work… who would have thought…
Yet Sefton police could find plenty of resources to go after this victimless ‘crime’.
https://i.imgur.com/E94wnqr.png
Shame they can’t be this dedicated when it comes to corruption or gangland shootings.
edit – oh hi there police sub.
There’s an “n” missing from the headline.
Biggest issue is that local policing teams are dealing with vast quantities of Domestic Abuse. Huge amounts. Like 50% of daily crime reported is domestic related. Add in the huge pressure to deal with all allegations of rape and sexual assault (huge amounts of which are historic) and you start to see how utterly fucked the police are.
One of the main reason new recruits leave is because they join thinking they’ll be chasing the big bad guys, but end up visiting arguing couples all day.
That’s not me saying DA and sexual assaults aren’t super serious – they are incredibly harmful. But how on earth do you police this?
These crimes are also incredibly hard to build a case around, with victim’s often ultimately withdrawing support (sometimes for understandable reasons) resulting in thousands of hours of work often wasted. And even if it gets through CPS, the chance of a successful conviction is low. Really low.
Then you have legislation telling police to attempt to get more convictions for coercive and controlling behaviour. But the CPS threshold is so high and the chance of conviction so low that in doing so you fuck up your positive outcome rates. It’s madness!
And don’t even get started on the fact pretty much all mental health issues now fall to the police. Right now there will be hundreds of police officers babysitting those in mental health crisis because the health system has utterly failed.
The whole thing is an utter mess and totally unworkable. All that happens is that resources bounce to whatever the latest public concern is. It was rape and sexual assault following Sarah Everard, but I assume it will now shift to neighborhood Policing and burglary. Then in a few months something else will kick off and resources will be directed there.
All the while armchair critics will bash the police, using any opportunity to throw mud. Morale falls further and more and more experienced staff and officers leave.
A few years back the average experience of an officer attending a local callout was around 5 years. Now it’s about 1.5 years. Their Sergeants are now typically very inexperienced, as are inspectors. The whole command and control structure is buckling, and even in the senior ranks there’s little resilience.
I honestly don’t know how you can even begin to fix this mess.
The worst thing about this situation is that it’ll take a decade to fix. Not just in terms of police numbers, but in reinstating all the early intervention programs that helped reduce and keep crime down under the last Labour government. Those programs are a long term investment that worked, before this government scrapped them all. It’ll take years to see the benefit from them again, if we’re even lucky enough that the Tories see sense and restart them.
Convenient excuse unless they can show a clear link between budget cut and crime detection. Every project / department manager in the world has used budget as an excuse.
Tories repurpose the headline for their election leaflets: Police chiefs blame Tory cuts for fall in crime
In other news, water is wet
Look there’s clouds in the sky. It might rain it must be the Tories fault.
Policing needs an overhual anyway, they spend to much time sat behind speed cameras (ban thr ability to give fines and only points and these cameras will vanish) , arresting people for thought crime and online insults when there are bigger fish to fry.
Yes the torys have made it alot worse for the police but the police are also to blame here.
Still i got to say it “fuck the torys” XD