Posted on 04/09/2025 9:04:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Police officers on foot will patrol every busy neighbourhood at peak times as part of a set of community-focused measures to be unveiled by Keir Starmer.
In an announcement billed as a return to an era of “bobbies on the beat”, the prime minister will also confirm that every neighbourhood in England and Wales will be given a named and contactable police officer.
The plans are expected to be in place by July, and follow the government’s promises to restore confidence in community policing. Labour’s leadership is under pressure to offer new policies for party councillors in England to sell on the doorstep as they gear up to fight local elections on May Day.
Starmer will say that visible policing has fallen dramatically over the past decade and will reiterate plans to put 13,000 more officers into neighbourhood policing roles by 2029.
“For years, crimes such as shoplifting and antisocial behaviour have wreaked havoc on our neighbourhoods,” he will say. “Policing has become reactive, picking up the pieces after crimes have occurred.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Only in go areas,not in the no-gos.
Example: Policing protests
Protests by environmental groups or left-wing activists (e.g., Extinction Rebellion) have often seen heavier police presence and pre-emptive arrests, while far-right or football hooligan gatherings have sometimes been policed more passively.
Critics argue this reveals a bias in how the police assess and respond to perceived threats based on group identity.
AI is biased.
Bobbies don’t carry deadly weopons. In other words they can’t even bring a knife to a knife fight.
Did someone mention Sir Robert Peel?
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They’ll be looking for native Brits to jail. Seriously.
Won’t touch the Moslems.
On the 1975-76 series Ellery Queen Mysteries. (Great show).
Inspector Queen (David Morse) to Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton):
Why when I was that young I was a cop pounding the beat in Hell’s Kitchen. Now that was police work.
Or tries silently praying to end abortions.
Top photo.....
So I sez to ‘im I can lick that crime wave like I tackle these cones.
RE: a return to an era of “bobbies on the beat”
“England Swings” by Roger Miller (1965)
England swings like a pendulum do,
bobbies on bicycles two by two
Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Big Ben,
the rosy red cheeks of the little children.
Picture meme....
James Bond to Moneypenny: “Well, seeing you in that uniform it certainly would dissuade someone from deciding to leave England.”
Well, George Orwell was British. But I think Britain has read him wrong....
Would that be a ‘beat’ as known of old?
Or
Just walking around?
Why was it called that anyway?
Policing “busy” neighborhoods of Englanders only because they can get away with it. Invader neighborhoods are off limits
And only going after people who utter hurty words...
The UK is locking up 30 of those per day.
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