Met Police, a rant
Discussion
jm doc said:
Ditto for the NHS and particularly Primary Care. It's on it's knees and the cover up continues with regular press briefings on an almost daily basis blaming the clinical staff. (Yesterday's Sun on Sunday classic example). It's becoming harder and harder to access medical care, experienced clinical staff being replaced by people who have had one or two years training, NHS111, people are actually dying as a result, workloads rocketing, the most experienced staff all leaving. Locally there are no GP's of my generation left, all that huge experience left to drift away, no effort made to encourage them to stay. I hear the same from police officers, other emergency services and teachers and stress related illness is at epidemic proportions.
Bit of a rant but I could spend a day listing the problems and it wouldn't make a ha'porth of difference...
The disdain that these 'people' of a certain political shade have for the services that hold this country together really is frighteningBit of a rant but I could spend a day listing the problems and it wouldn't make a ha'porth of difference...
Derek Smith said:
I remember mustering with shifts of 18 or so for just one part of the town I worked in. Now they are lucky to get into double figures for all of it.
I remember when you could pass a tape to a civvy and have it transcribed ready for the CPS file.
I remember being able to nick a suspect and be out on patrol later that shift.
I remember probationers never supervising other probationers.
I remember a floor of civilian support staff who used to type out documents for operational officers.
I remember when not answering a telephone call within 10 minutes led to the inspector being questioned as to why by those in the command suite.
I remember the start of the running down of the service, way back, in the late 1990s. This despite the press being told of the investment in the service. I remember fewer officers, longer times for vacancies being filled, of corners having to be cut.
I don't remember, at least first hand, the attack on the service by Cameron and later May, with farcical figures being mentioned. I remember retired officers being asked to join enquiry units at basic pay plus a little to do jobs civilians used to do. I remember them being cut later, so the jobs remained undone.
I accept this is a rant, but so was the first post.
I don't think the police can nowadays suggest they are still being picked on as the same problems effect all forms of social service, the NHS and much of the other infrastructure everyone took for granted.
This country is in a parlous state, entirely of the government's making. But the government blames, for instance, social services when they fail to hit impossible targets. It along with others blame the police for lacking the staff required to service all the demands placed on it.
It's odd that I can remember, way back, at the turn of the century, suggesting that sooner or later, the police would not be able to cope with demands. And that was ten years before Cameron.
This is the reality of the situation and I don't see it improving any time soon. Is it any wonder that people take matters into their own hands?I remember when you could pass a tape to a civvy and have it transcribed ready for the CPS file.
I remember being able to nick a suspect and be out on patrol later that shift.
I remember probationers never supervising other probationers.
I remember a floor of civilian support staff who used to type out documents for operational officers.
I remember when not answering a telephone call within 10 minutes led to the inspector being questioned as to why by those in the command suite.
I remember the start of the running down of the service, way back, in the late 1990s. This despite the press being told of the investment in the service. I remember fewer officers, longer times for vacancies being filled, of corners having to be cut.
I don't remember, at least first hand, the attack on the service by Cameron and later May, with farcical figures being mentioned. I remember retired officers being asked to join enquiry units at basic pay plus a little to do jobs civilians used to do. I remember them being cut later, so the jobs remained undone.
I accept this is a rant, but so was the first post.
I don't think the police can nowadays suggest they are still being picked on as the same problems effect all forms of social service, the NHS and much of the other infrastructure everyone took for granted.
This country is in a parlous state, entirely of the government's making. But the government blames, for instance, social services when they fail to hit impossible targets. It along with others blame the police for lacking the staff required to service all the demands placed on it.
It's odd that I can remember, way back, at the turn of the century, suggesting that sooner or later, the police would not be able to cope with demands. And that was ten years before Cameron.
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