Police and Crime Commissioner absolute farce.

[Henry-F]

So, we've seen the multi million pound advertising campaign including it's hard hitting and emotive visual content. Check.


We received our Postal Poll Cards. Check.


We've been on the website and got lost. Check


We've seen the Norfolk Police Authority video featuring some pot bellied bumpkin trying to emulate Dizzee Rascal. Check


We've been told by Victor how to vote. Check


We've even been told in Welsh. Check


The only thing we have no idea at all on is who we are actually voting for!




As someone who pays a st load of money each year into the pot from which this farce is being funded can I say what a waste of time effort and my hard earned pounds. I'm getting clobbered for tax at the moment, I don't mind if I felt we were all pulling together to try and get us back on an even keel or that this was going to make any impact on crime reduction a subject close to all our hearts. Having some toothless committee loving failed councilor / politician or would be captain of industry added to the mix of hands steering the ship will do no good at all.


If you want to sort out crime get rid of the old wood controlling the force who can't even work out how to send a text and bring in new blood who can embrace technology, save on shoe leather, man power and get some serious detection work done using the phenominal tools that are out there. Then build on the public support which comes from seeing results and maintain that by having a government which stops wasting money criminalising and alienating vast swathes of the population.

Indulge yourself in This from the Norfolk Constbulary and see how seriously you think they are taking the multi million pound project.

The scrotes must be stting themselves

Henry

[Henry-F]

All this talk of who is standing in local areas makes me somewhat confused. The reason for my venturing onto the various websites was to try and find out who I would be voting for in the Thames Valley area.

You are far greater people than me if you find out the candidates. If I'm struggling there is little hope for the mere mortals amongst us.


As for the solution to policing, well that's a far more complicated answer than this farce can deliver. Ironically I think this political excersise will make things worse. It will push the force further into the corner of "traditional" policing techniques which worked in the 1960s but in 2012 serious crime needs to have most of the groundwork done on a computer trawling through data before committing expensive manpower. Just throwing tens of thousands of pounds worth of bodies at an investigation doesn't work. In the same way having a gang of 5 special constables hanging around together in the town centre or on an estate does little other than intimidate the law abiding community who watch as they play at being Jean Claude Van Dame in their stab vests / flak jackets with lots of clip on toys.

People who choose to smoke cannabis and partake in other minor drugs recreationally may be helping to sustain organised crime, but only because the government chooses to criminalise it. The PCCs are only going to exasperate the issue. It won't be long before the underground tobacco supply chain outstrips legal sources. Shops are being forced to sell it covertly, branding is being shunned in favour of easy to replicate anonymous packaging.

I'm no expert, I don't smoke, I don't take drugs recreationally, I drink a bit but not that regularly or to excess, I try not to break the law when I drive but inevitably do as everyone else does, so I've no particular axe to grind other I suppose than the traffic laws but I see a lot of easily correctable mistakes which could sorted but for the politicians, police chiefs, newspapers and PCCs

Henry

Edited by Henry-F on Tuesday 23 October 10:59

[Henry-F]

streaky said:

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I wonder how many of our politicians, in their endless search for new punitive initiatives, have realised that putting more police on the beat increases the chances of detection which, oddly enough, is what our criminals fear the most."

Streaky

I think the chances of detection would be increased if investment was made in technology / readily available databases.

Just flooding the ground with bodies isn't the answer.

Senior descision makers have little concept of the value these commercially available databases can provide because they don't understand the technology.

Henry