What? That they might shirk even more of their duties than the present lot?
They lowered entry standards a few years ago and now we get a story every week of a cop breaking the law.
In recent years they mostly hire middle-class, never been near crime naive specimens. What they should be hiring is working class, grown up around criminals street wise specimens. Police these days are a joke. Lazy useless cunts.
There’s a massive hiring of police, but without a correlating increase in training or support staff.
New officers are being trained by contract staff who have never been police officers, in university’s as opposed to police buildings. As a result, they turn up to their team with an ok knowledge of law, and pretty much nothing else. No knowledge of practical policing, or how to apply their knowledge in real life.
They are only being issued with half of their uniform, and are turning up to their team wearing trousers that they got on ebay.
They’re turning up en-masse to response teams, so instead of 1/2 new officers having a team of 20-30 experienced officers to learn from, you find 10/15 new officers trying to learn from a handful officers with 6 months more experience than they do.
You have pressure from government to reach the 20k new officers target, so people who should not be in the job are being pushed through training and onto the streets, when in reality they should have been turned away at the door, either due to poor attitude, poor ability, and in a number of cases, a poor grasp of the English language.
We need more police officers. But we also need more support staff around them. More training facilities, more training staff, more equipment suppliers, more back office staff, more call handlers, more vehicles. Instead we’re massively expanding the officer numbers, and keeping everything else the same, if not cutting it even thinner.
I know people want to feel safe in London, with problems like knife crime and terror attacks. But sometimes people who live the most dangerous lives already see the police as a threat. The police need to do better not rush into mistakes if the goal is to protect and serve people. Not just throw in a bunch of wannabee cowboys who got less training or vetting than Wayne Couzens and Deniz Jaffer.
With the power invested in them by the government and the trust that most people have for police, a single corrupt or incompetent police officer has the power to ruin people’s lives and have a family lost trust in the police as an institution.
Especially if someone victimised by the police makes a complaint and it goes nowhere. Which is what happens with the overwhelming majority of complaints.
How can the met possibly poison the new blood into the same old corrupt guard if they come in this volume? It’s almost like there might be change, we can’t have that.
I’m going to say it
Recruiting according to the targets that they have imposed on themselves instead of ability is going to bite them on the arse
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What? That they might shirk even more of their duties than the present lot?
They lowered entry standards a few years ago and now we get a story every week of a cop breaking the law.
In recent years they mostly hire middle-class, never been near crime naive specimens. What they should be hiring is working class, grown up around criminals street wise specimens. Police these days are a joke. Lazy useless cunts.
There’s a massive hiring of police, but without a correlating increase in training or support staff.
New officers are being trained by contract staff who have never been police officers, in university’s as opposed to police buildings. As a result, they turn up to their team with an ok knowledge of law, and pretty much nothing else. No knowledge of practical policing, or how to apply their knowledge in real life.
They are only being issued with half of their uniform, and are turning up to their team wearing trousers that they got on ebay.
They’re turning up en-masse to response teams, so instead of 1/2 new officers having a team of 20-30 experienced officers to learn from, you find 10/15 new officers trying to learn from a handful officers with 6 months more experience than they do.
You have pressure from government to reach the 20k new officers target, so people who should not be in the job are being pushed through training and onto the streets, when in reality they should have been turned away at the door, either due to poor attitude, poor ability, and in a number of cases, a poor grasp of the English language.
We need more police officers. But we also need more support staff around them. More training facilities, more training staff, more equipment suppliers, more back office staff, more call handlers, more vehicles. Instead we’re massively expanding the officer numbers, and keeping everything else the same, if not cutting it even thinner.
I know people want to feel safe in London, with problems like knife crime and terror attacks. But sometimes people who live the most dangerous lives already see the police as a threat. The police need to do better not rush into mistakes if the goal is to protect and serve people. Not just throw in a bunch of wannabee cowboys who got less training or vetting than Wayne Couzens and Deniz Jaffer.
With the power invested in them by the government and the trust that most people have for police, a single corrupt or incompetent police officer has the power to ruin people’s lives and have a family lost trust in the police as an institution.
Especially if someone victimised by the police makes a complaint and it goes nowhere. Which is what happens with the overwhelming majority of complaints.
How can the met possibly poison the new blood into the same old corrupt guard if they come in this volume? It’s almost like there might be change, we can’t have that.
I’m going to say it
Recruiting according to the targets that they have imposed on themselves instead of ability is going to bite them on the arse