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Post by jonksy on Nov 14, 2024 8:05:55 GMT
Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has warned of “eye-watering cuts to the services we provide to London” as the force is hit by a growing financial crisis.
The capital’s top officer insisted that Scotland Yard had run out of ways to plug funding gaps and he was “deeply troubled” by the situation it was facing.
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Post by Dogburger on Nov 14, 2024 8:22:15 GMT
What services ?
Local police stations shut , no bobbies on the beat and if you are a victim of crime you are lucky to get a crime number let alone a visit . Maybe he is on about the 'other' police force that deals with hate crime and racism ,they always turn up .
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Post by jonksy on Nov 14, 2024 8:25:14 GMT
What services ?Local police stations shut , no bobbies on the beat and if you are a victim of crime you are lucky to get a crime number let alone a visit . Maybe he is on about the 'other' police force that deals with hate crime and racism ,they always turn up . Exactly... |
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Post by honestjohn on Nov 14, 2024 9:39:04 GMT
Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has warned of “eye-watering cuts to the services we provide to London” as the force is hit by a growing financial crisis.
The capital’s top officer insisted that Scotland Yard had run out of ways to plug funding gaps and he was “deeply troubled” by the situation it was facing.
I'm not sure we would notice any difference. They avoid the public calls for assistance as much as they can. Try ringing your local police station, the number is not listed. Try calling 101, you'll be on ages just being batted away. Try calling 999 with a crime in progress, you might get some response. |
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Post by Vinny on Nov 14, 2024 10:45:50 GMT
Labour now: "Tough on thought crime, tough on the causes of thought crime."
Everyone else, "what do you mean by thought crime?" "and what are you going to do about real crime?"
Labour: "Er, well, you see, look, over there, I'm offended!!"
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Post by Fairsociety on Nov 14, 2024 15:45:11 GMT
Labour now: "Tough on thought crime, tough on the causes of thought crime." Everyone else, "what do you mean by thought crime?" "and what are you going to do about real crime?" Labour: "Er, well, you see, look, over there, I'm offended!!" The police love these thought crimes, they don't want to be on the streets chasing dangerous criminals, they want to be knocking on Sally Jones door asking her why she is saying nasty things on facebook, it's easy work for them, as long as they can log they are attending a 'incident' their backs are covered, when they finish their shifts most of them will have been sitting all day interviewing internet trolls FFS. |
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Post by Totheleft on Nov 15, 2024 4:52:51 GMT
“That’s completely crazy.”
The Metropolitan Police will receive up to £3.5 billion in funding in 2024/25, the Home Office said, which is a 3.5% increase on 2023/24.
In the Budget, the Chancellor set out plans to increase the core government grant for police forces in 2025/26.
Sir Mark said the force is still in talks with the Home Office and the City Hall over the annual funding allocation for the next financial year.
“This is not just about this year’s decisions, but it’s a cumulative effect of decisions over the last decade or so which have put us in a more and more precarious position,
So according to you lot labour are to blame for cuts over the last decade to the police by the Tory government .
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 15, 2024 6:53:38 GMT
The Tories aren't in power, doofus - Labour are. And decisions over police funding are Labours alone. A quick Google reveals that in 1998, the Met's budget was £2bn. Today it's £3.5bn – a below inflation increase and less than the £3.7bn that it was in 2011. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police#BudgetMeanwhile since 1998 the population of London has grown from 7 million to 9 million people – an increase of nearly 30%. www.statista.com/statistics/910658/population-of-london/So since the late 90s, the Met has seen a real cut of 10% in its funding and a 30% increase in the population it polices. No wonder it's in shit state. And what are 2TK and Khanage doing about it? Oh yes, that'll be fuck all. |
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Post by Totheleft on Nov 15, 2024 7:53:34 GMT
2012/13 to 3.28 billion GBP in 2013/14. It remained around this figure in 2017/18, but increased slightly to 3.33 billion in 2018/19
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 15, 2024 8:19:18 GMT
Yes, and we're having chips for tea.
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Post by Rebirth on Nov 15, 2024 8:20:45 GMT
Yes, and we're having chips for tea. Who's Chips? |
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Post by johnofgwent on Nov 16, 2024 6:30:06 GMT
Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has warned of “eye-watering cuts to the services we provide to London” as the force is hit by a growing financial crisis.
The capital’s top officer insisted that Scotland Yard had run out of ways to plug funding gaps and he was “deeply troubled” by the situation it was facing.
I'm not sure we would notice any difference. They avoid the public calls for assistance as much as they can. Try ringing your local police station, the number is not listed. Try calling 101, you'll be on ages just being batted away. Try calling 999 with a crime in progress, you might get some response. Nope. This was in our previous home so we're talking early Blair Labour ... I think there were about a dozen twenty something's pissed off their faces on spar wine and stuff. That's my assessment from the bottles they left. They came up the path at the side of my home, sat on the embankment and drank themselves stupid. Then they started throwing the empty bottles. That's when the first 999 calls were made by neighbours. No one came. Then they started fighting. Then about six if them started knocking lumps out of each other so hard they smashed through my garden fence and into my garden where they brawled on my lawn and vegetable patch That was when I rang 999 To be told there was no officer available to assist. Those were the very words. To which I said oh well I suppose I'll have to fight them myself then. And put down the phone. I remember going to the garage side door and taking the motorbike chain from the work bench, and a big bit of wood. Maybe the pickaxe handle because surely to god if I'd used my lumberjack axe or lump hammer I'd have killed them. I charged out into the garden and let the first thug have it. They were actually pretty piss poor at fighting, or too pissed to fight properly. On seeing me making short work of their friend most legged it back through the destroyed fence, and I went after them ranting and screaming. This clearly did the job. They scattered. I chased one along the back of the garden boundary, where the old railway line closed by Beeching was now a trackless cutting. Maybe a 20 foot drop. If course the shitbag fell down it, screamed briefly and lay still at a funny angle in the brambles and stuff I went back to the house. My wife told me the one I'd made contact with staggered off into the night I called 999 again, said 'hi, I just called to report drunken violent thugs fighting in my garden, you said you had no one available and so I drove them off with a motorbike chain. One fell down the disused railway running from me. I think he's killed himself' No one came to that either The next morning there was no sign of the body. Either the thugs pals took it, or he came round in the night and crawled off Either way, we had no more of that. From that night until I moved out about six months later, there was not the slightest hint of unruly behaviour.... |
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