The Essex Police Federation (the trade union for Essex Police) is launching a campaign against cuts.
To quote them:
We have chosen to run this information and awareness campaign because we believe you the tax paying public have a right to know what the ?72.5 million cuts to the policing budget mean to you.
How cuts will affect you. That crime is not falling; it is changing.
That Cuts have consequences.
Essex Police Federation represents the rank and file police officers in your county. We are police officers ourselves and like all officers in Essex we joined the police to serve and protect the public.
For the first three months of 2015 we will be giving you information that you are entitled to know. What you do with that information and knowledge is for you to decide.
Only those with knowledge and those making the decisions can stop the erosion of your police service…..
That line “…crime is not falling; it is changing” is interesting, hopefully they will enlarge on that.
Here’s a mad, crazy idea, stop over reacting to every road traffic incident however small, stop closing roads for hours on end, stop standing around looking at the ensuing chaos and use the time and resources saved to catch criminals….I know, how off the wall is that….????
Police , NHS , Armed Forces, Street Lighting, Potholes and so on and so on – how can they justify a yearly £12 billion ( and rising ) in over-seas aid , a large portion of
which does’nt reach it’s objectives ?. The lunatics are running the asylum…….
Has any reader got any ideas about the mysterious White powder being put down all over Rayleigh ?
Came up yesterday at Parish Council .it is assumed it is flour or chalk dust to mark some kind off running course? An officer from RDC was spied inspecting the substance ,he was invited to sniff it ,he declined !,
It seems that some of the powder has been put down by a running club, let’s hope that these half wits come back and clear it up. Somehow I doubt it…..may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their running shorts……