Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#1
Hundreds more Police to be sent off out of Kent's Police Force.
10,000+ more houses to be built in and around Dover.
London's unemployed to be shipped over to Kent where housing benefit works out cheaper for the State.
Three million mass Bulgarians and Romanians on the way...
....BUT keep cutting the Police Force - after all we don't really need them, do we?
Will we be safe? Will we become Bronx and Harlem? Looks like it's coming and real big-time!
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Kent-Police-set-lose-300-police-officers/story-19342285-detail/story.html?ito=email_newsletter_thisiskent#axzz2WqHF9zNSGuest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#2
I daresay DDC Planning didn't take into account Community safety in their core strategy and additional planning strategies.
Or they simply forgot that the State has gone bust and has decided to fling our safety away to throw the money at Syria's rebels instead and to let in hate preachers advocating the beating of women.
See this!!!
http://news.sky.com/story/1106292/preacher-who-backs-wife-beatings-let-into-uk
Police! We need the Police and they should get a few facts clear: we probably need more of the Police and not this Government!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
alex,#1,the Bulgarians/romainian problem is 6 months away if it ever materialises.
#2,the police problem is a central government problem and ddc's one.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
We do need lots more police on the beat walking around the town in Two ,and also bigger ones most are from 5ft to 5ft 8ins what is needed is 6ft+ and coming in over 14stone an d more powers to act and cutout all the backchat that some public give them lets get back to the old way of policing and stop messing about.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#5
Farrage was forced to admit on national TV that he had no evidence to support his claim of 3m coming over from Bulgaria, so lets nip that one in the bud.
Ref police
Past policing some aspects were good, but not all,
and being on the beat is not always the most affective policing
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
Yes it is.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#7
I don't agree
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#8
Police on the old fashioned beat certainly helped to stop crime with their visible presence.
Now it is more practical to use PCSOs or whatever the term is, I just wish there were more of them and they had more power, or maybe that should be more often used the powers that have been given to them.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#9
The Police Force has to be proportionate to the population.
If the numbers of inhabitants increase significantly, then how can the Police Force be drastically cut in numbers?
This does not make sense, and DDC Planning really must take this into account.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Policing has nothing to do with the council if does it is a new one on me.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#11
oh look we now have boy scouts patrolling the street.
Guest 937- Registered: 12 May 2013
- Posts: 145
#12
I find it very hard to understand how anyone older than 40 can think that police on the beat is not the best way to keep our community safe.
I also agree with Vic that as well as needing more, they need to be of a certain stature and fitness. This is not discrimination, it's commons sense.
Whilst diplomacy and patience may certainly defuse certain situations, aren't you all fed up to the back teeth at the abuse and disrespect hurled at our Force for doing their job?
I would be interested to hear Keith's preference for effective policing.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#13
Pauline,2 points to make.
1,a person over 40 can remember police WALKING a beat.
2,police now patrol in cars,not effective as walking the beat.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#14
that is why i like pcso's - they are visible and a deterrent, just wish they had more powers.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#15
Vic, Council planning for 10,000+ more homes should have a lot to do with the Police availability, which should be a prerogative in any Council decisions to drastically increase the number of residents.
We are seeing significant Police cuts, but are supposed to approve the doubling of Dover's population by 2026.
The District Council most certainly has to review its core strategy in light of the Police Force cuts.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
Most of them are not fit and even if they had any power they would not know how to handel a mob or drinkers after closing time again most are too small and alright for handing parking tickets but not much more. sorry to say that but that is the way it is.But will add what most of them in the roll they play are good in fact very good but as Policeman never.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#17
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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#18
Maybe the police are as disillusioned with the judicial system as us, time spent preparing paperwork for court only to have "soft sentencing".
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#19
The above post again has hit the nail right on the head,well put.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
#20
I totally agree, the police are no longer any use now that they have been reduced in height.
I think this is a massive issue in many other areas of our society:
Librarians should be ladies over the age of 50 with spectacles perched on their noses - improving literacy.
Teachers should wear a mortarboard and have leather patches on their elbows - improving education.
Doctors should ALWAYS have a stethoscope hanging from their neck and nurses should wear caps - this is clearly where the NHS has lost its way.
And last but not least, all working class men should wear flat caps.
I'm 6ft, does that mean I would be a good police officer? I can tell you now, I would be useless.