20,000 extra coppers.

[fillyboy]

I'm sure on a tv prog years back I saw a politician (can't recall which party) say that moving forward we'll need less public facing police as the ways in which crime is committed was changing e.g. cyber criminals etc. I've heard the same said more recently re troops, less boots on the ground required because the way wars are fought is changing. Whilst there are obviously threads of truth in this, You'll never convince me we should have less public facing police and front line troops. No doubt just waffle to excuse the cuts they make.

And we had years of successive Govts telling us crime rates were plummeting, why would you increase police numbers if crime were falling?

I was never convinced crime rates ever did fall, but yes, the nature of the crimes did change.

 

[Notch7]

There are now 149,000

The highest number ever.

How did the government meet its police pledge?

The Conservatives meet their election pledge to recruit thousands of police officers.

www.bbc.co.uk

Population has gone up by 6 million since 2010

So we have far less police per capita than we did under a LABOUR govt.

oh and Tories got rid of 23,000 other staff in police force too.

 

[transam]

First rule of politics

“the ability to count”

( Lyndon Baines Johnson )

 

[Odds]

I thought the first rule of politics is "don't get caught"?