Tax refund demand over Poor Police .....

[The Wiz]

News from the heart of Brunstromia ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/3320525.stm

Tax refund demand over policing

A Holyhead official has said the standard of policing in the town is so bad he wants his council tax money back. Deputy mayor Jeff Evans says the Anglesey town is "under siege" from petty criminals and claims the police are unable to respond.

He has written to the police telling them that if anyone else provided such a bad service, he would be justified in not paying for it.

But North Wales Police have defended their record, and have say they have put more police officers on the street in response to recent problems.

According to Mr Evans, Holyhead has recently suffered a spate of arson attacks, assaults and incidents of vandalism such as shop windows being smashed.

He has taken advice from local solicitors over taking the force to court to recover money paid through the council tax precept the police authority gets.

He is also protesting against a 26% rise in the police's council tax precept.

Mr Evans said: "If I paid for an electrician in my house and he does a bad job, I'm not going to pay him, nor am I going to give him a 26% increase which is what the police are asking for.

"What I'd say to the police is: 'You have failed repeatedly'. For 20 years, I have supported the police.

"Now they have let me down, now they have let the public down."

'Disappointed'

Chief Superintendent Gareth Pritchard, divisional commander in charge of Holyhead, said: "Clearly there are issues in Holyhead town centre that we are actively pursuing at the moment.

"We have more resources there but we have to take into note that violent crime is down by a quarter, three-quarters of the cases have been detected, burglaries are down by a third, so there is plenty of good work being down.

"I'm disappointed that at this moment, [Mr Evans] seeks to detract from these initiatives."

But Mr Evans claimed he had figures that showed violent crime had gone up rather than down in Holyhead and across north Wales.

[streaky]

Once again our nostrils are assailed by the smell of cooked books - Streaky

[gh0st]

STOP CATCHING SPEEDING DRIVERS AND GO AND SORT IT OUT R*****D B********M (wnaker)

[oyster]

Ok so according to the Chief Superintendant crime has dropped by large numbers. If so, why is their part of the council tax going up by 28%??

I know the twats in government are fiddling the local authority grants, but surely not so much that the police need an extra 28%!!!

How do we stop this fraud that that the public services are inflicting on taxpayers every day?

[puggit]

This was only a matter of time - and has crossed my mind a few times (well, more like taking the council to court...)

[HarryW]

puggit said:

This was only a matter of time - and has crossed my mind a few times (well, more like taking the council to court...)

Felt exactly the same after the last two years of silly increases. Bloody local government blaming national gov and vica versa, it's only joe public muggings that picks up the bill.
I have said on numerous occasions that if inflation is 2-3% why has your outgoings as a local council gone up by 20% ffs get a grip of your outgoings you muppets . That even ignors the councils apparent lack of central gov funding they keep bleating about.
What particulary stuck up my nose last year was that, as far as I could make out from the police leaflet enclosed, approximately 70% of the their increase went on wages and propping up their not too unattractive pension.
It really is that close to revolution for me on these issues . WHat would happen if you paid them the same as last year + inflation only, would they have a leg to stand on .

It is legalised extortion as far as I can see, it doesn't take a mathematical genius to work out if the average wage goes up by say 3% pa with outgoings like tax keep going up by 20-30% ever year it won't be take too many more years where it won't be worth going to work :fume:.

Harry