Savage attack on WPC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11426...

The massive cuts to personnel which has led to single crewing becoming the norm has led to more and more of these attacks. But apparently, we can rest assured that the frontline is 'not affected'.

This week the National Police Air Service was subject to another 10 base closures giving us 50% of our pre-2012 level. We've lost 50% of our dogs, 40% of our Roads Policing, 50% of our mounted units, 18000 Officers and another 40000 to go if Cameron and May get re-elected. But it's OK, they tell us crime is down, so nobody should care at all.

I'm surprised that the usual suspects, who seem to spend every minute of every day trawling You Tube for every ancient video that portrays the Police negatively haven't posted this one. I'm sure they could've put a negative spin on it somehow.

In other news, the Chief of Defence staff was due to give a speech this week about the security situation and the state of the UKs defences. No10 has gagged him after seeing a copy. But that's ok as well. He keeps telling us there's no problem there either.

Perhaps even they were too decent to use such an incident to score cheap political points?

She's already recovered and back at work.

If this kind of thing is happening as a result of cuts in numbers presumably there are some independent statistics that prove it?

Posting in the way the OP was posted you could just as easily point to a couple of arrests by single crewed patrols and claim a 100% increase in efficiency - it's meaningless in isolation.

Slightly more surprised that the ahole only got 3 years but that's another story.

My understanding is that police official figures are that crime is down. Based on that, surely it's you telling them.

We get that you don't like Cameron- I believe someone described it as "visceral hatred". Nevertheless, cheap political point-scoring doesn't make you look good.

That's the CoDS's job- to get a bigger, better set of defences. It should be taken with the same pinch of salt as the police saying the police should have more.

I'm pleased the WPC is fully recovered, btw.

It's not hard to put a negative spin on it.

You'd expect her to be extra vigilant if she was alone, yet someone handcuffed and seated in a car throws a half assed punch/pushes her and she falls over and then can't defend herself.

You could argue if she had a partner there with her it wouldn't happen, but even with a partner there, he'd probably have still managed to knock her over.

He's in the car and it looks like she's not just put him there, so why doesn't she close the door then talk on the radio?

It's sad that it's happened, but it's a risk that goes with the job, unfortunately.

If it were some 6ft 14 stone bloke, do you think he'd have tried the same?

I've lost count of the fat/old and generally useless looking police officers I see. The type that wouldn't stand a chance of outmuscling a well built teenager, or catch someone running on foot, and not because they have Kenyan like pace or stamina!!

On the face of it, it just looks like she was caught off guard and some nutjob took advantage of that.

It seems strange she managed to get him cuffed and then he put up a fight, maybe she thought he wasn't a threat to her.

Ah, the alledged racist chants being investigated by BT police?

I think you'll find they're different from normal bobbies - the way they're financed certainly is and I don't remember reading recently how their budgets are being savagely cut along with their numbers.

I don't see any 'cheap' political shots in the OP - I see genuine concern over drastic (and some would argue foolish) cuts in numbers and budgets.

It bothers me.

Obviously it bothers others less...

What you consider unimportant may be considered to others.

A front stack would have been better, although people can still strike using them. Rear handcuffing isn't really done / trained to be done to compliant prisoners.

The main issue was the reaction gap she left herself. She was too close allowing someone sat to strike her.

The instinctive human "fight or flight" kicked in after that and she took hold of him, when it would have been better to withdraw and allow him to escape and / or for her to draw her spray. The problem is most police officers aren't that way inclined and would rather put themselves at risk rather than let a prisoner go.

I don't want to be overly critical, as we all become complacent, as the British way to police is to revolve nearly all conflict verbally.

Horrible video, glad she had a bodycam. She had clearly realised that trouble was brewing as she was discreetly calling for backup on the hurry-up.

He was cuffed in a non- approved position, however often the best thing with someone who is just compliant is to get the cuffs on quickly as a degree of control without winding them up by using a fancy stack technique.

This makes it clear why single crewing as standard isn't a great idea.

The current cuts are savage, and the public are going to have to expect Police to be saying 'no' an awful lot more than is the case at the moment.