Spend my money on policing ...

[streaky]

not on producing and delivering (c/o Royal Mail) an "Annual Report" spinning a line about how you're "Working hard to keep me safe". I note that you don't say that you are actually keeping me safe, just that you're working hard at it .

And while I'm in complaint mode, how do you manage to deliver a "2004 Annual Report" in the second week of June 2004?

Surrey Police - stick to the knitting!

Streaky

PS - I realise that Surrey Police might be obligated by HMG to produce this report and that my rant should be directed at what passes (and hopefully soon passes on) for a government in this country ... but, as many other threads have indicated, the messenger gets shot fairly frequently - however unjust that might be - S

[Dwight VanDriver]

Streaky moaned:

<<<<And while I'm in complaint mode, how do you manage to deliver a "2004 Annual Report" in the second week of June 2004? >>>>

IIRC they work to a financial year like business, i.e. close all books for the old year beginning of April and reopen for coming year. Clerks all heads down gather stats, S.O"s writing fairy tales, D's fiddling crime fiqures, which takes a couple of months to collate and have printed in that Annual Report.

DVD

[streaky]

Dwight VanDriver said:

Streaky moaned: <<<<And while I'm in complaint mode, how do you manage to deliver a "2004 Annual Report" in the second week of June 2004? >>>> IIRC they work to a financial year like business, i.e. close all books for the old year beginning of April and reopen for coming year. Clerks all heads down gather stats, S.O"s writing fairy tales, D's fiddling crime fiqures, which takes a couple of months to collate and have printed in that Annual Report. DVD

So the FY is 2003/2004 - ie. "2003" (if for no other reason than two thirds of the period covered is 2003) - Streaky

[Dibble]

Streaky - you could always send me any spare fivers you might have lying around.

Handy to be able to afford some extra donuts every now and again...

[streaky]

Dibble said:

Streaky - you could always send me any spare fivers you might have lying around. Handy to be able to afford some extra donuts every now and again...

Sorry, Dibble, but doughnuts do not equal policing ... even though you can't police without them .

I want my money spent on more BiB on the street and in TrafPol cars, on higher walls and smaller cells in prisons (give the TVs to the needy), and on gallows, stocks and flogging benches.

Still, I guess the money spent on producing and distributing the report saved a scamera in Surrey .

Streaky

[Dibble]

streaky said:

I want my money spent on more BiB on the street and in TrafPol cars, on higher walls and smaller cells in prisons (give the TVs to the needy), and on gallows, stocks and flogging benches.Streaky

So you're suggesting a more liberal approach then?

streaky said:

gallows, stocks and flogging benches

I'll supply my own rotting fruit and birch twigs if you like...