SEVEN MILLION LOST DAYS!
Seven million days are lost every year in the police force thanks to bureaucratic red tape !67000 police not on the street
The police are losing SEVEN MILLION working days every year thanks to New Labour's obsession with red tape and paperwork!
This is equivalent to almost 67,000 police officers never carrying out any frontline duties at all !
The figures emerged from a Home Office study showing almost 20% of police time is spent on paperwork and sparked demands for a bonfire of red-tape to put more police on the beat. (Full story here) But thanks to New Labour's obsession with paperwork, targets and red tape, that is never going to happen because it is now SIX YEARS since ministers first promised to reduce red tape when it emerged police did not have time to patrol the streets thanks to filling in paperwork ! Not only is it not going to get better, it has actually got worse, since New Labour decided to measure how police officers were spending their days ! THAT lunatic initiative meant they were filling in even MORE paperwork in order for the Home Office to discover they were spending a great deal of their time filling in paperwork ! It now takes an unbelievable ten hours and six minutes just to process a single arrest suspect which is the time between arriving at a police station and being bailed or released because as many as 33 forms need to be completed ! And during that time the officer is doing nothing but filling in those forms - certainly NOT doing the ONE thing the public want him to do - namely actually fight crime and the criminals who pose an ever increasing threat to their safety and security ! In 2002, the then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, promised to cut red tape - at a time when there were "only" 250 forms in regular use, and 43 percent of officers' time was spent in stations filling out forms ! Today, more than four years after that promise, the situation has got even worse, thanks to New Labour's obsession with targets, and the lunatic belief that targets, paperwork, lies and spin, are a substitute for real policeman on the streets solving real crimes ! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT - JOIN NAVIGOR TODAY !
67000 police not on the street
The police are losing SEVEN MILLION working days every year thanks to New Labour's obsession with red tape and paperwork!
This is equivalent to almost 67,000 police officers never carrying out any frontline duties at all !
The figures emerged from a Home Office study showing almost 20% of police time is spent on paperwork and sparked demands for a bonfire of red-tape to put more police on the beat. (Full story here) But thanks to New Labour's obsession with paperwork, targets and red tape, that is never going to happen because it is now SIX YEARS since ministers first promised to reduce red tape when it emerged police did not have time to patrol the streets thanks to filling in paperwork ! Not only is it not going to get better, it has actually got worse, since New Labour decided to measure how police officers were spending their days ! THAT lunatic initiative meant they were filling in even MORE paperwork in order for the Home Office to discover they were spending a great deal of their time filling in paperwork ! It now takes an unbelievable ten hours and six minutes just to process a single arrest suspect which is the time between arriving at a police station and being bailed or released because as many as 33 forms need to be completed ! And during that time the officer is doing nothing but filling in those forms - certainly NOT doing the ONE thing the public want him to do - namely actually fight crime and the criminals who pose an ever increasing threat to their safety and security ! In 2002, the then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, promised to cut red tape - at a time when there were "only" 250 forms in regular use, and 43 percent of officers' time was spent in stations filling out forms ! Today, more than four years after that promise, the situation has got even worse, thanks to New Labour's obsession with targets, and the lunatic belief that targets, paperwork, lies and spin, are a substitute for real policeman on the streets solving real crimes ! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT - JOIN NAVIGOR TODAY !
16 May 2007