Policing in Barnet is atrociously inadequate!
I knew it. I was not just imagining things! There are no patrolling police in Barnet anymore (and it there are, they are the invisible kind!)
BECAUSE, they are otherwise engaged elsewhere!!!
Boris Johnson
I think, it is time for Boris to step down! We need police not another celebration in the city, which we from the suburb do not really get to see, feel, enjoy. I feel that Boris’ London is mainly in Westminster and surroundings and yet we pay for the upkeep of the whole of London.
Come to think of it, it is most unfair for Londoners to pay £0.50p to use toilets in the city. I was bursting when we where at the Tower Hill and all the toilets charged £0.50 per go. Don’t we pay enough in council tax to be able to wee freely in the city? 🙁
Using the toilet is a necessity and charging for it is an abomination to rights and health of human beings! 😉
Boris, know and sort your priorities!
Below is an article regarding police absence in Barnet which prove my observation which I previously blogged!!!
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Labour election hopeful raps “fewer police on Barnet’s streets.”
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Andrew Dismore
BOBBIES were taken off their regular
neighbourhood beat in Barnet to help
with policing elsewhere on more than
2,000 shifts between April and September,
reducing their visibility on the streets
of the borough, it has been claimed.
The details were revealed in a written
answer from mayor Boris Johnson,
who is responsible for police to the
London Assembly.
Assembly member Andrew Dismore,
who is Labour’s prospective parliamentary
candidate for Hendon, said he was
concerned that at least 22 police officers
were missing at least one shift a week
from their normal duties in Barnet.
According to the London mayor,
police carried out 2,254 shifts outside
Barnet on 114 different occasions. Mr
Johnson’s reply also said that police
could be “abstracted”, used to offer
“aid” within their borough for duties
such as sporting and cultural events and
policing operations.
They could also be used for policing
large-scale demonstrations, festivities
and one-off events.
Mr Dismore said: “This means that on
average Barnet has lost no fewer than 87
officer shifts per month, or 22 officers
missing at least one shift per week from
their normal work.”
He said that Barnet had lost 50 police
officers since May 2010, when there
were 595 officers, with a drop of 91
police and community support officers,
down from 177 to 86.
He said: “The Met needs to look at
its policy of abstraction in boroughs
which are overcommitted and not
have abstractions. Instead of being visible on the beat, the eyes and ears of the Met, providing reassurance and deterrence, officers are in cars, running
around to meet demanding schedules,
trying to plug gaps.
“With so few officers on the beat, no
wonder residents are always complaining
to me that they don’t see officers on
the beat anymore.”
Chief Inspector Dave Lobb said officers
had been involved in the inquiry
into the murder of Alice Gross in west
London and in policing the Notting Hill
Carnival every year.
He added that every borough provided
officers for London-wide operations
and allowance is made for that.
However, he said, police were always
pushing for more numbers.
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