Shouldn’t they be doing that anyway? Isn’t that part of their job?
Maybe they should deploy themselves to police stations, they’d have better luck.
Alternate headline: “police officers to do their job”
Does this stop predatory behaviour by ensuring the officers are too busy to be predatory?
Presumably this a follow on from that documentary where a reporter walked around late at night in a town center pretending to be very drunk and a ton of creeps clearly tried to take advantage of her
I assume this is let people know to avoid the town centre but they could discipline them in some other way.
Absolute load of shit article, Romford in particular has always had a night time town centre team at weekends. This isn’t new in the slightest.
Also known as officers “on the beat”. How very novel
Not sure how having more predators patrolling will help.
Given this is the chock-full-of-predators Metropolitan Police we are talking about, q*uis custodiet ipsos custodes*?
The met have had how many officers dismissed for abuse just this year already and I’m supposed to think they’ll do anything for stopping predators? How can you spot what is normalised to half of your corrupt force
Well if this doesn’t have “who watches the watchmen” vibes all over it…
I remember being in my 20s (40ish now) that the town centre was covered in police on a night out, nowadays days nobody and the police will only come out after being called. Frome lad so a not a big town.
Who are they going to send out to stop THEIR predatory behaviour?
So protecting women from potential crime trumps investigating crimes that have actually happened now?
Fighting predators with predators. Lets see how this turns out
>”This tactic is focused on identifying predatory behaviour and preventing offences from taking place in order to protect anyone who is vulnerable, **including both women and men**.
Not sure why the story focuses on women, when they’re actually looking to protect anyone who might be a victim regardless of gender.
Maybe they should start with their own officers yeh
People who are saying ‘Police officers do their jobs LOL’ …90% of an officer’s time is responding to calls. That is their ‘job’. They do not have the manpower typically to just send officers out to hang around a centre.
You have a problem with that, take it up with the people you elect who have decimated the police force over the last ten years.
Haven’t read the article but sounds like a good idea!, If they’re busy working they can’t be out being predators… Idle hands and all that.
Can they afford to lose any man hours from searching twitter for hurt feelings?
Perhaps they could deploy to the Houses of Parliament to stop daily predatory behaviour?
The titles wrong the met predators have been deployed to help the predators
Fire department deploys officers to town centre to “stop fires”.
This is like in Scream or something, the call is coming from inside the house!!
These have to be the most useless force in the world.
The fact that the police doing their job is news, is a sorry indictment of the state of this country.
If the Met want to stop predatory behaviour they should send their officers to remote empty fields where they can’t do any harm to anyone.
Sooooooo…. They’ll be doing their normal job that they are meant to do?
Fucking putting police on the street at night? What a big brain take fuckin hell how is this news.
The same police officers that time and time again are charged with sexual misconduct and have been exposed repeatedly for sexual discussions in work WhatsApp group chats often regarding female members of staff, female detainees and female victims of crime that they have spoken to?
Respect to all the women who have to go out there and put up with this shit day in, day out.
>Superintendent Lisa Butterfield, leading on Neighbourhood Policing in Romford, said that the patrols – which have begun in Romford and Ilford town centres, has lead to a ‘12.4 per cent decrease in violence against women and girls related offences, compared to the same three-month period last year’.
I know no one is impressed in the thread or want to make it about how men are the true victims of society, but I thought it was a pretty good improvement.
“Police make a show of force after failing for decades”
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Shouldn’t they be doing that anyway? Isn’t that part of their job?
Maybe they should deploy themselves to police stations, they’d have better luck.
Alternate headline: “police officers to do their job”
Does this stop predatory behaviour by ensuring the officers are too busy to be predatory?
Presumably this a follow on from that documentary where a reporter walked around late at night in a town center pretending to be very drunk and a ton of creeps clearly tried to take advantage of her
I assume this is let people know to avoid the town centre but they could discipline them in some other way.
Absolute load of shit article, Romford in particular has always had a night time town centre team at weekends. This isn’t new in the slightest.
Also known as officers “on the beat”. How very novel
Not sure how having more predators patrolling will help.
Given this is the chock-full-of-predators Metropolitan Police we are talking about, q*uis custodiet ipsos custodes*?
The met have had how many officers dismissed for abuse just this year already and I’m supposed to think they’ll do anything for stopping predators? How can you spot what is normalised to half of your corrupt force
Well if this doesn’t have “who watches the watchmen” vibes all over it…
I remember being in my 20s (40ish now) that the town centre was covered in police on a night out, nowadays days nobody and the police will only come out after being called. Frome lad so a not a big town.
Who are they going to send out to stop THEIR predatory behaviour?
So protecting women from potential crime trumps investigating crimes that have actually happened now?
Fighting predators with predators. Lets see how this turns out
>”This tactic is focused on identifying predatory behaviour and preventing offences from taking place in order to protect anyone who is vulnerable, **including both women and men**.
Not sure why the story focuses on women, when they’re actually looking to protect anyone who might be a victim regardless of gender.
Maybe they should start with their own officers yeh
People who are saying ‘Police officers do their jobs LOL’ …90% of an officer’s time is responding to calls. That is their ‘job’. They do not have the manpower typically to just send officers out to hang around a centre.
You have a problem with that, take it up with the people you elect who have decimated the police force over the last ten years.
Haven’t read the article but sounds like a good idea!, If they’re busy working they can’t be out being predators… Idle hands and all that.
Can they afford to lose any man hours from searching twitter for hurt feelings?
Perhaps they could deploy to the Houses of Parliament to stop daily predatory behaviour?
The titles wrong the met predators have been deployed to help the predators
Fire department deploys officers to town centre to “stop fires”.
This is like in Scream or something, the call is coming from inside the house!!
These have to be the most useless force in the world.
The fact that the police doing their job is news, is a sorry indictment of the state of this country.
If the Met want to stop predatory behaviour they should send their officers to remote empty fields where they can’t do any harm to anyone.
Sooooooo…. They’ll be doing their normal job that they are meant to do?
Fucking putting police on the street at night? What a big brain take fuckin hell how is this news.
The same police officers that time and time again are charged with sexual misconduct and have been exposed repeatedly for sexual discussions in work WhatsApp group chats often regarding female members of staff, female detainees and female victims of crime that they have spoken to?
Respect to all the women who have to go out there and put up with this shit day in, day out.
>Superintendent Lisa Butterfield, leading on Neighbourhood Policing in Romford, said that the patrols – which have begun in Romford and Ilford town centres, has lead to a ‘12.4 per cent decrease in violence against women and girls related offences, compared to the same three-month period last year’.
I know no one is impressed in the thread or want to make it about how men are the true victims of society, but I thought it was a pretty good improvement.
“Police make a show of force after failing for decades”