Police should INVESTIGATE crimes, not just visit victims!
Posted by michael on November 21, 2009
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson is apparently saying that the police should visit every crime victim.
This is an amazing statement and confirms what the people in the UK already know. This is simply that the police do not bother with investigating every crime that takes place. Because if they did, then the police would already be visiting every crime victim!
The police are not bothering to investigate a huge amount of the crime that takes place. We know from the media that the police refuse to turn up on many occasions, especially for ‘low level’ crime such as yobs smashing up property and fighting on the streets. Any crimes involving credit cards are now simply ignored.
Yes, Brown is employing more police but they seem to spend most of their time back in the police station filling in reports!
I am cynical enough about this government to wonder if so much of this ‘low level’ crime is deliberately being ignored in order to reduce the crime figures!
The same applies to the police issuing fixed penalty notices for a range of public order offences. I would guess that these offences are not included in the crime figures because no prosecution takes place!
Labour’s failure to build prisons in advance of when they would be required means that we do not have the prison places required. The answer that this government appears to have come up with is to ignore a lot of the crime going on in the streets.
