Why there are no more cops on the beat ...

[streaky]

but the Home Office insists there are.

Well, it's another B'liar fiddle. The HO now counts time the BiB spend on paper-work as "front-line policing".

It makes the figures look better, but does nothing to improve the public's increasingly jaundiced view of the level of policing.

Streaky

[Dibble]

We're actually made to do files etc outside the office, in our cars...

[streaky]

Dibble said:

We're actually made to do files etc outside the office, in our cars...

Not whilst you're driving I hope - Streaky

[Dibble]

streaky said:

Dibble said: We're actually made to do files etc outside the office, in our cars... Not whilst you're driving I hope - Streaky

Profile pic, anyone...?

Quite how they expect us to updat the various computer systems while we're out writing, I'm not so sure.

Perhaps we'd spend less time sitting at a desk if we didn't have to enter the same data several times over, onto different systems, as none of them seem to be compatible.

[streaky]

Dibble said:

streaky said: Dibble said: We're actually made to do files etc outside the office, in our cars... Not whilst you're driving I hope - Streaky Profile pic, anyone...? Quite how they expect us to updat the various computer systems while we're out writing, I'm not so sure. Perhaps we'd spend less time sitting at a desk if we didn't have to enter the same data several times over, onto different systems, as none of them seem to be compatible.

Dibble - I LIKE that! "... while we're out writing" Sums it up perfectly! - Streaky

[autismuk]

Dibble said:

We're actually made to do files etc outside the office, in our cars...

I had heard such (and that other cops were made to do them in Cafes), but viewed this as so completely asinine that it couldn't be true.

A typical crappy ACPO dodge. If you can't do the job properly, cheat.

[autismuk]

streaky said:

but the Home Office insists there are. Well, it's another B'liar fiddle. The HO now counts time the BiB spend on paper-work as "front-line policing". It makes the figures look better, but does nothing to improve the public's increasingly jaundiced view of the level of policing. Streaky

I have never, in Norwich, seen a cop on the beat *anywhere*. Even in the City Centre. However, I *did* see two PSCOs the last time I was there.

You are right though ; it's cheating.