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Eddie mate..

My comment wasn't made as a dig at the Police force and I'm sure you realise that. As you'd imagine, the Police are present at Pub Watch meetings and this is where we, as licensee's get a lot of intel on the local thugs. At this particular meeting, a representative from the local council was there to impart what they'll be doing to enforce the 'No Smoking' ban and all went well until the part when she mentioned that extra resources had been allocated to 'Police' the ban.

What this boils down to is that we, as licensees and as members of the general public, would like to have seen more resources made available to the Police force to enable them to do their job.. not given to EHO's to go around policing the no smoking ban. A complete, in my view, misrepresentation of valuable resources. Goes without saying that the local officials words were met with much derision from the assembled group One of those 'fly on the wall' moments where the mood quickly turned ugly. I get the impression she was relieved our local bobby was there.. for her own protection if nothing else

Such is the crazy world we live in

ATB

DaveB :tab:

I've had good and bad experiences of the police, as most of us probably have. The worst was being stopped on Christmas Day, the excuse for which was a complete lie! That doesn't instill confidence...

But I think we need to accept that unless we (probably) treble the numbers of police officers we have, and be willing to pay for them in taxes, the police will ALWAYS be overstretched.

James

On the whole I think our police do a pretty decent job, although you do get the occasional howler.

I once lived in a terraced house in an East Anglian city, and worked from home. I got home one morning, after dropping my son at nursery, and saw some people acting very shiftily at the end of the gardens (they were pretty much all open). My next door neighbour was very much a Delboy character, so always had nickable stuff lying around.

Anyway, I ascended to the upstairs bedroom which acted as my office and dialled 999. I explained the situation, that there were four 'yoof' obviously up to no good and they said they would send a car around. Five minutes later no car, but the yoof were moving on on the house, so I called again; the controller acknowledged that a car was on it's way. By this time one of them had climbed up onto the flat roof at the back of the property and was forcing a window open - I stayed on the phone and gave a running commentary "yoof on roof, yoof in house, yoof opening back door" etc. They thanked me, phone was put down - and then rang again! "Exactly where did you say this house was?", they said from one street away as the four lads made fast their escape.

And if you wrote that in a TV script they would never believe you!!

AndyG

The police have just been, she was a lovely pc took down everything i had to say. told me that the will check the towns cctv and that of local shops etc. Asked would i object to publicity which had me thinking what she ment by that. But then she said where was my friends bike?

I told her that it was at his house?? she said if we hadnt touched his bike they could have taken finger prints off it as they had moved his bike to get to mine.

I mean she was very helpful and it wasnt her fault that ive wait 2 days but did she expect the bike to still be outside halfords? and if not how did she expect my mate to ride it home without touching it?

But atleast there doing something and if i had locked the thing up it may not have got nicked. But wether its locked up or not it got nicked which was wrong.