A topsy turvy world, run by idiots

What a wonderful country we live in, when an elderly man has been subjected to seven hours of harrassment in his own home, his invalid elderly wife assaulted, recieved no assistance from the Police when called. Their advice? Hide inside until they get fed up and leave. Finaly in desperation the man went out again to confront the youths , was verbaly abused by one , so he gave him a backhander accross the face, richly deserved. This of course brought the Police post haste, some 7 hrs after they were first informed, and what did they do? Arrest the the elderly man, lock him in a cell for 4 hrs, before discharging him with a caution for common assault.

The report does'nt tell us if there were any charges brought against the yobs for terrorising old folk, we are told there were 20 teenagers in this mob, who prevented this couple from leaving their home for 7 hrs, other residents had also called the police, and were advised to stay in doors.

This unfortunately is no isolated incident of this kind, it happens more and more, our Policing is a farce, more like the "Keystone Kops " of the old movies. They are no longer upholders of law and order, or keepers of the Queens peace.

When Sir Robert Peel founded the London Metropolitan Police in 1829 he said this "The primary object of an efficient Police is the prevention of crime, and the detection and apprehension of criminals if crime has been commited. Next, that of the protection of life and property.

To these ends , all efforts of Police must be directed. " As a young probationer constable many moons ago, I had to learn this until I could repeat it parrot fashion, and it's stuck in my brain.

Note it begins with the most important part, the prevention of crime. In order to do that there needs to be a visible Police presence on our streets, in our ghetto estates, and round our sub-urban roads and parks. every where that criminals operate. Instead our Police have been reduced to a responce service, and often a very late responce at that.

But the idiots in charge have always resisted building up a propper professional, well paid Police, relying instead on un paid volounteers, and the latest crackbrained idea of Wardens, with very little powers or training. The few expensively trained, and competant constabulary are snowed under with red tape and paper work, instead of being out there preventing crime and cracking down on criminals.

But if we had a government determined to tackle the problem, who doubled the strength of the Consabulary, where would we put all the arrested criminals? As it is our few prisons are full, crims are released early to go and re-offend, and the judiciery under instruction not to give custodial sentances for more and more types of crime. The criminal fraternity laugh all the way to the bank as they deposit their ill gotten gains, and then go off to collect their welfare benefits.

Good here innit !!