Police cuts in Barnet: have your say!
London Mayor Boris Johnson is cutting the Metropolitan Police by 20%
As you may have noticed this 20% cut has worked through to Barnet. Since the last general election our police numbers in Barnet have gone down dramatically:
| 01 May
2010 |
30 November
2012 |
30 November 2013 | |
| Police Officers | 595.18 | 518.01 | 530.75 |
| Sergeants | 98.73 | 84.68 | 74.18 |
| PCSOs | 176.76 | 94.09 | 70.44 |
| Specials | 133.00 | 150 | 152 |
| Police Staff | 105.28 | 75.29 | 65.53 |
| Total | 1108.95 | 922.07 | 892.9 |
Official figures from answers given at Mayor’s question time
This means 195 fewer pairs of eyes and ears to keep us safe.
Overall, The Met has lost than 3,062 officers since the last general election. They had 30,085 officers in December — the lowest level since spring 2004 — despite Mayor Boris Johnson’s now broken pre-election pledge to keep to about 32,000 officers.
You now have a chance to question and challenge the Deputy Mayor for policing and senior Met officers about what has been going on:
6:30pm Wednesday 26th February,
Hendon Town Hall
The Burroughs, London
NW4
To attend, you must preregister at:
https://www.london.gov.uk/get-
for example, you could ask about:
· Police numbers
· The end of the safer neighbourhood teams, where ward ring fenced officers have gone down from a total of 9 to just 2
· The closure of Golders Green and Whetstone Police Stations and reduced hours at Barnet police station
· Why the stations’ replacement “contact points” have been such a failure: just 15 contact point visits per week across the whole of Barnet over the last three months
· Are the police spending too much time in cars again and not enough on foot patrol
· The use of tasers in Barnet: in the year since November 2012 when they started it has been used by local officers 38 times
· Are the water cannons the mayor wants to buy a waste of money when the police are so strapped for cash
· Use of stop and search
· Why anti social behaviour is not one of the targets for crime reduction
· Burglary and other crimes
· why they are so secretive about race discrimination claims against the police
and of course the list could go on!!
I frequently raise policing issues directly with the Mayor, but now is your turn.
So please go to the meeting to have your say and to give Boris Johnson’s Deputy Mayor for Policing your views on the 20% police cuts and what this means for Barnet.
Remember to preregister at:
https://www.london.gov.uk/get-
I hope to see you there!
