Crime 
Police numbers falling in Somerset(2)
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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 called [...]
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Fear of crime v Reality of crime
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I am always sceptical about crime figures. If there is one area of statistics where you can make figures say what you want them to say then crime statistics has got to be it.
Chris Grayling (Conservative Shadow Home Secretary) was this week reprimanded by the UK Statistics Authority (a Labour quango) for using [...]
Car fuel thefts in Crewkerne
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Whilst out and about in Crewkerne recently I was concerned to hear from a local garage owner about the growing problem of cars having their fuel siphoned.
Most cars have some form of anti-siphon mechanism fitted but these thieves have been drilling down along the petrol filler, or even drilling into the petrol tank [...]
A values based approach to social policy
Have sat in on parts of both the education and law and order debates.
The focus on the behaviour of young people both in and out of school has been bought sharply in to focus and whether it is increasing the price of alcopops, or lookinng at how school uniforms improve behaviour, it is clear that [...]