OUR 3% POLICE FARCE !
A government report has finally revealed the truth about the disaster which now passes for a police "service" !Mountains of police paperwork
A shocking report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, shows how New Labour's obsession with targets has led to a POLICE FARCE where the public are less important than the paperwork !
It shows that less than 3% of officers are available to deal with 999 calls because so many are filling in mountains of paperwork !
So concerned are the police with meeting "targets" that one police chief has even ordered his men to ignore all incidents which do not affect government targets ! Another - unnamed - force had 800 officers allegedly working but only 20 were free to deal with emergency calls ! Emergency calls are now routinely downgraded if there are no police officers available or their operators are swamped with calls - in that way targets are met because less serious calls can be met with a phone call rather than a visit from a police officer ! So next time you read of a woman battered to death by a burgler in her own home 50 minutes after calling the police, you can feel reassured to know that at least the police are meeting government targets ! And the inspectors were told that some officers didn't even bother to respond when they were sent on some calls or made themselves "unavailable" - the result being a backlog of 200 "unserviced" incidents in one area alone ! And to add insult to injury, patrol cars spend almost half their time driving around without even attempting to target crime hotspots and many police stations, even if open, have closed their front desks to the public! All in all it was a picture of a police force so enmeshed in red tape and obsessed with targets that the very reason for their existence - the protection of the public - had long since been forgotten ! Meeting targets is now the only reason for their existence - mountains of paperwork that can be fed into New labour's fudge machine, spun out of all recognition to somehow prove that the police are doing their job - no matter how many people lie dead on the streets because paper targets, not the public, have become more important ! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT - JOIN NAVIGOR TODAY !
Mountains of police paperwork
A shocking report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, shows how New Labour's obsession with targets has led to a POLICE FARCE where the public are less important than the paperwork !
It shows that less than 3% of officers are available to deal with 999 calls because so many are filling in mountains of paperwork !
So concerned are the police with meeting "targets" that one police chief has even ordered his men to ignore all incidents which do not affect government targets ! Another - unnamed - force had 800 officers allegedly working but only 20 were free to deal with emergency calls ! Emergency calls are now routinely downgraded if there are no police officers available or their operators are swamped with calls - in that way targets are met because less serious calls can be met with a phone call rather than a visit from a police officer ! So next time you read of a woman battered to death by a burgler in her own home 50 minutes after calling the police, you can feel reassured to know that at least the police are meeting government targets ! And the inspectors were told that some officers didn't even bother to respond when they were sent on some calls or made themselves "unavailable" - the result being a backlog of 200 "unserviced" incidents in one area alone ! And to add insult to injury, patrol cars spend almost half their time driving around without even attempting to target crime hotspots and many police stations, even if open, have closed their front desks to the public! All in all it was a picture of a police force so enmeshed in red tape and obsessed with targets that the very reason for their existence - the protection of the public - had long since been forgotten ! Meeting targets is now the only reason for their existence - mountains of paperwork that can be fed into New labour's fudge machine, spun out of all recognition to somehow prove that the police are doing their job - no matter how many people lie dead on the streets because paper targets, not the public, have become more important ! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT - JOIN NAVIGOR TODAY !
30 Mar 2007