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**mr.videomen** · 09-25-2007, 10:41 PM

Given that there were 80,000 Police Officers in England and Wales in the 1960's and there are now 140,000 Police Officers in England and Wales, plus a further 17,000 in Scotland, I would say the numbers have significantly increased. On top of this there are 2,700 British Transport Police, 12,000 Special Constables and a planned 25,000 PCSO's.

So where are all the real Police Officers? Every public survey I've read produces the same complaint, the public asking "where have all the Police gone, why aren't they patrolling our streets reclaiming them from the yobs, rapists, burglars & muggers?"
Police Officers on the beat are as rare now as hen's teeth - they're simply nowhere to be seen! Yes you can tell me about increased numbers but they're not where it counts, on the frontline preventing & detecting crime.

When one woman stood outside Downing Street quietly reading out the names of the British war dead in Iraq, 7 Police vans and 20 cops turned up to arrest her!
When the the poor innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot at Stockwell tube station, the Police were there in force to shoot him 8 times, 7 times in the head!
So when there's a bit of action to be carried out they're there but when Joe Public wants the Police they're nowhere to be seen.

As I've already said we don't want cardboard cut-out PSCO's as a substitute for real Police officers, we're being cheated, we want what we pay for & expect, real professional Police officers who are visible and who can hopefully regain the trust of the public.

09-25-2007, 10:41 PM	#48
mr.videomen Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	Given that there were 80,000 Police Officers in England and Wales in the 1960's and there are now 140,000 Police Officers in England and Wales, plus a further 17,000 in Scotland, I would say the numbers have significantly increased. On top of this there are 2,700 British Transport Police, 12,000 Special Constables and a planned 25,000 PCSO's. So where are all the real Police Officers? Every public survey I've read produces the same complaint, the public asking "where have all the Police gone, why aren't they patrolling our streets reclaiming them from the yobs, rapists, burglars & muggers?" Police Officers on the beat are as rare now as hen's teeth - they're simply nowhere to be seen! Yes you can tell me about increased numbers but they're not where it counts, on the frontline preventing & detecting crime. When one woman stood outside Downing Street quietly reading out the names of the British war dead in Iraq, 7 Police vans and 20 cops turned up to arrest her! When the the poor innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was shot at Stockwell tube station, the Police were there in force to shoot him 8 times, 7 times in the head! So when there's a bit of action to be carried out they're there but when Joe Public wants the Police they're nowhere to be seen. As I've already said we don't want cardboard cut-out PSCO's as a substitute for real Police officers, we're being cheated, we want what we pay for & expect, real professional Police officers who are visible and who can hopefully regain the trust of the public.
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