THE POLICE FORCE

Restoring Respect
Reducing Petty Crime
Controlling The Drugs Culture
Scotland Yard Go On A “Jolly”

 

The Police Force – Restoring Respect

 

Any work force needs managers – in this case, the Sergeants. And, one of the manager’s primary responsibilities is to make sure that those people under his/her responsibility are where they are supposed to be, and doing what they are supposed to be doing, at all times during the working day.

The abandonment of this principle in many parts of the Public Sector has created a situation where nobody is now responsible for anybody’s inactivity, under performance, or indeed non-appearance. In this way, the biggest majority in our public services, the hard working conscientious majority, are rendered ineffective by the minority, who are abdicating their managerial responsibilities.

 In the last 15 years or so, the Police have taken some very wrong directions.

Just one small illustration is the prevalence of speed cameras. I do not say that there should be none at all, but there are undoubtedly far too many. They are a costly and very inefficient way of running a community Police Force. In terms of cost alone, for every 3 or 4 cameras you could easily employ one more policeman, and one more policeman on his beat will do far more for community relations, public spirit, peace and tranquility than any number of speed cameras will.

 The disappearance of pride in their profession, and the inability to achieve a result against the criminal world, leads otherwise hard working Policemen to despair. The result is that far too many Policemen, out of a sense of exasperation, seek early retirement on spurious grounds of ill health (I am not stupid, and neither is the public at large). In fact, even early retirement on the grounds of ill health can, and should be rescinded on recovery, and then such people could return to work.

I am not particularly interested in the Policeman who has turned bad. It will happen from time to time, as indeed it does in all professions, but the system should examine the accusations quickly and efficiently, and then, if necessary, fire him and be done with it. Suspension of an accused policemen for month after month, sometimes even years, on full pay, whilst some spurious investigation takes place, is not in the least little bit acceptable to the public at large.

Such lengthy investigations, whilst the accused is suspended on full pay, do not happen in the private sector and it should not happen in the public sector either.

 However, I certainly am interested in the manager who has failed to spot a bad policeman under his/her charge, and I am very interested in their explanation for such an obvious failing.

 In short, I am very interested in the managers, the Sergeants, being allowed to control the police force once again, and the Policemen within it.

 

 

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Reducing Petty Crime - Controlling The Drugs Culture

 

Petty crime is largely the direct result of the drugs culture – fact.

In other words it is a known fact that most petty crime is precipitated by the need for large sums of money in order to feed the drugs habit of someone somewhere. The community at that level is controlled and directed by the drugs that are supplied, and by the people who supply them. If you want to take that control away from the people who provide the drugs, then you must remove the drugs, or their tradable street value.

 We have tried intercepting the drugs on their arrival in the UK and, predictably, we have failed because of the vast amounts of money involved.

I would advocate an immediate state supply of all drugs, through the prescription high street pharmacy, to all known addicts. In other words – just give it to them if they are addicted. As soon as we do so, the criminal gangs who currently control and supply the drugs, will be instantly out of business because the addicted will no longer need to pay for their unfortunate habit.

In a relatively short time thereafter, petty crime will be substantially reduced.

Then we shall need to work with the human behaviour of those who are addicted, in order to try and restore them to a useful role in our society.

 

 

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The Police At Scotland Yard Help Themselves To A “Jolly”

 

(Sunday Times) Apparently Scotland Yard have racked up £12.5m worth of freebie “first class” and “business class” flights around the world in just the last three years.

In the last twelve months alone, they have spent our money on 2,247 such first class and business class flights to various destinations around the world. Personally, I did not know there were even that many Policemen in Scotland Yard.

Apart from being stunned and outraged, I cannot understand the thought processes that someone at Scotland Yard must have gone through in order that they could presume they were entitled to such luxury. If they want these sorts of luxury trappings within their lives they should do as everyone else does, either – a) earn and pay for it themselves or – b) take a job in the private sector.

Indeed, such profligacy in the private sector, without the performance and profit to match, would of course result in immediate dismissal (specifically – not early retirement).

I presume there is an MP who is responsible for Scotland Yard, and I assume that it is the Home Secretary. If the Home Secretary has the experience of the businessmen that I know, rather than being one of the all too common career politicians, who usually have no sense at all of business management, then he/she will, at this very minute, be delving into who was responsible for allowing this piece of expensive stupidity to happen in the first place.

Whilst he/she is at it, I would suggest that he/she also finds out if the flights were justifiable in the first place. I get a horrible feeling that a good many were junkets, or some such other incredible stupidity.

 I must also just say that I am not particularly interested in who took advantage of the freebie luxury travel, but I really am very interested indeed in the managers and controllers within the police force who have been signing these trips off as legitimate expenses.

You see, it is not so much the money, although that is bad enough, it is the attitude of the powers that be, who seem to think that this sort of thing is acceptable practice, be it in any of our public services, police, politics or government agencies of any nature.