An end to Law and Order

A review of the future of policing reportedly suggests that only about 10% of police tasks actually require trained police officer quoting, for example, that taking statements from witnesses could be done 'more effectively'by civilians.

Now, call me cynical, but this does just happen to come at a time when the government have locked horns with the police over pay. Of course this new government analysis may not be linked to Browns hatred of anyone wanting to risk their lives for Britain and perhaps get enough money to live on in return. However the last ten years of policing strategy has resulted in a widespread breakdown in law and order with youth shootings all over the country accepted as everyday events where once this would have shocked. We are constantly told our youth are crime ridden binge drinkers and the prison population is now so bloated that, in the absence of anywhere else to put offender, they are released early back into the community
to continue re-offending.

What this government is suggesting is that the British people will be left without any protection from criminal activity. We are already under- policed as ill-trained PCSOs take the place of our bobbies but under this scheme even they will be replaced by someone only trained to push a pen and not to stop shootings in Peckham.

Anybody reading this article should make active protest. This can be done by writing to the newspapers, teletext, MPs, local protest groups and to the police themselves. Organise protest and petitions in your local areas and tell your local politicians you will vote for them if they protest with you.

I shall certainly be actively protesting in all the above ways but if we fail to stop this latest de-construction of Britain then we will only have ourselves to blame when there is no law and order left.