Crime 
Fewer Prisoners means fewer Police?(0)
Image via Wikipedia It of course sounds like a perfect world. A world where you are able to cut the number of Police on our streets and reduce the number in prison because crime has fallen to such a point that neither are required in the future. Of course the world is not perfect like [...]
Are new gun laws the answer?
Image via Wikipedia The mayhem on the streets and in the fields of Cumbria is a shocking jolt. Britain is not used to this type of crime partly because we do not have the same gun culture as places like the US. I know Whitehaven quite well as many years ago I used to work [...]
Somerset Police recruits at last
Image via Wikipedia Avon and Somerset Police have decided to justify their swingeing rise in their part of the Council Tax by now recruiting 60 new trainee Police Officers. This follows the revelation discussed here last week that the number of Police Constables had fallen in Somerset, whilst the number of senior ranks had increased [...]
Police numbers falling in Somerset
Image via Wikipedia There has been an incredible amount of rather synthetic fury from the Lib Dems in Somerset about what was a possible decision by the County Council to reduce the funding they provided to Avon and Somerset Police and by doing so reduce the number of PCSO’s across Somerset. The Lib Dems variously [...]