Royal Parks police unit to be ‘disbanded’ after 150 years despite charity’s warning of ‘serious consequences’

by ThatchersDirtyTaint

7 comments

  1. It’s so sad to see the UK welcoming crime and abandoning its decent law abiding citizens to live in fear and neglect yet powerless to defend themselves.

  2. Is very sad in deed for such a historic and important part of London’s policing is going to be lost. On the one hand, the Government are saying they are going to increase Manpower numbers, but in reality The Met is having to make cuts. PR spin from Government. Talk the Talk but not Walking the Walk.

  4. Watch the number of crimes and vandalism in the parks increase starting … now.

  5. Absolute bollocks. As if the one thing London needs is less policing ! This cut to the Met needs to stop!

  6. If they’re Royal Parks perhaps the King might like to pay to keep them.

  7. Obviously the cuts to the police are outrageous, bear in mind that there have been about 15 years of cuts that have been cumulating. There is nothing left to cut without axing certain departments. But if I did have to cut a department, this is the one I would cut. The parks are pretty secure, they are all locked at night and these officers aren’t especially visible in areas that big anyway but what it does mean is that any crimes or operations in the parks now have to picked up by other local officers so the surrounding officers now have to pick up an extra 2000 offences that need investigating and that’s just more strain and less focus elsewhere.

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