Reply With Quote...way to go UK, keep the tax payers paying for moats and other important stuff your leaders require.
28,000 police jobs to go UK
Spending cuts to force 28,000 police job losses - Acpo
Government cuts will claim 28,000 police jobs, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has said.
The Acpo estimate for England and Wales has been made in a confidential memo to ministers published in the Guardian.
more ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12672329
...way to go UK, keep the tax payers paying for moats and other important stuff your leaders require.
Remembers me of the time when they closed down the police station of our city.
Meh... :/
Good to scrutinise ACPOs methodology. Which consists entirely of:
1. Brew tea.
2. Eat biscuit.
3. Wave finger around in air.
4. Guess any old ****ing number.
5. Publish.
ACPO isnt exactly an impartial source, its a private company funded from government grants and commercial services as well as lobbying on Police issues such as terrorism and biometrics.
Theyve also recently been in trouble for exceeding their coordinating role by getting involved in undercover operations that have collapsed in some notable failure, not least when their super-ninja undercover cop ended up married to his target and joining their side.
The Labour party are estimating 100,000, ACPO says 28,000, roughly translated theyre all guessing for political and funding reasons.
Guess there won't be so many ethnic diversity training officers, and Gay rights training officers now, and yes they do have them in every force
I'm sure they will keep them.Originally Posted by Hollos
As if these reductions are not bad enough, they are only part of the package. There are also plans to severely cut back on various allowances and payments that Police officers receive for different bits and pieces that they do. I'm not a copper and I don't always see eye to eye with some of the stuff that they do but I do recognise the value of having a reasonably well paid and up to strength Police force to stop the bad guys.
I wonder what the number in the US has been of total number of reduction in the US forces during this economic downturn.
To be honest no one knows how many jobs will go. According to the report 12000 officers will go and 16000 civilian back office jobs, but the killer is that some of those back office jobs still need to be done or mean officers will have to do themselves such as tape transcribing, so the effect is actually much worse.
Can't see reducing their pay being good for morale. Both my parents are retired Detectives and they certainly weren't well off by any means. I'd be all for getting rid of a few of the higher ranking officers who collect fairly generous salaries for what they do but realistically the rank and file officers will get shafted.
Awesome stuff.. it takes the police 10 hrs to turn up if u report a crime as it is now.. cut them back even more. SWEET!
I lolled hard. How so. And how many more places.
I'm just wondering what the heck New Labour been up during all these years? Didn't they have any form realistic economic planning?
1/ Identify problem
2/ Release important news conference promising action
3/ Throw money at problem till it shuts up or goes away temporarily. Release next news conference announcing you have solved the problem for all time.
4/ if 3 fails, print more money and repeat
I think that about covers Labours economic planning?
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