The Mayor of London’s promise to “double the number of Special Officers to 10,000” looks to be in tatters after the Met’s latest figures showed that there are now only 3,253 Specials in the capital, 43% fewer than in May 2012 when he made the pledge. In Barnet and Camden the number fell 41% from 424 in May 2012 to […]
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Read moreCamden’s police officers are being routinely ‘abstracted’ from their local beats to plug gaps in London-wide public order operations new figures have revealed. The new data found that 728 officer shifts are being lost from Barnet and Camden police forces every month according to Metropolitan Police statistics provided to Labour’s London Assembly policing spokesperson Joanne McCartney. The figures showed […]
Read moreDear editor Your coverage last week of the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary report into the Metropolitan Police, finding it to be ‘in need of improvement’, comes as little surprise. The problems facing the Met. are not due to any lack of effort or commitment by our warranted officers and PCSOs. Rather, they are the product of the cuts and reorganisations […]
Read moreDear editor , Unelected new London Assembly list member Conservative Kemi Badenoch calls for our few remaining PCSOs to take on extra duties. If she has her way, no doubt they would also be sweeping the streets, emptying the bins, issuing parking tickets and acting as council inspectors, instead of their vital policing patrol duties. However, what she […]
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