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Many of you will have had the new leaflet called Policing in Kent dropping through your letterboxes in the past day or two. This is of course a police publication and in it they flag up some of their positives, which is fair enough I suppose in your own publication.
But what worries me most of all is not police performance up to now, which appears to be quite good statisticswise, but the concern is what are we to expect from future police performance.
Why the concern? Huge financial cutbacks is the short answer.
In the editorial piece on page 2 the Police here in Kent are expected to continue giving us a solid performance with a cut in funding of £53,000,000. Yes a staggering £53million. Everyone including the Police try to blag this up saying it wont affect frontline performance...although secretly and reading between the lines you can tell they are reeling.
The politicians in government give us the usual bull about needing to maintain the same level of performance but with much less money. But this is clearly impossible. We all know dont we that money is the ezssential fuel for success in almost everything. The easiest illustration is football. All the football clubs with money are at the top..a simple lesson...end of.
Without this staggering amount of money you can therefore be reasonably assured that your streets will NOT be policed in the same way, fewer criminals will be arrested, fewer crimes will be solved, all sorts of criminals will be let out of the system earlier, response times will be slower...and even in relation to the debate running on that other thread about cyclists on pavements...nobody will be around to enforce the law on anything of such a lowly nature as the resources just wont be there.
These cuts are the policy of the Conservative led government, a party that was once the party of law and order!!
So sadly we all need to get to grips with the fact that we are due for an increase of unpunished criminal activity, not a happy situation for any one of us.