Are the police a waste of space?
All right, I will go along with what some of you say and accept that there are still some good police officers out there, and I will repeat that I have yet to meet one, and then we can move on.
Two cases to highlight what is wrong with the Police Service today and why most of their Senior Officers will have to be replaced before we can get a Police Service that serves the community and not one that is used for gathering random taxes and reducing the number of doughnuts in the community.
A young mechanic called Tony, is furious with police who failed to turn up to his 999 call, after he had been attacked, bitten and threatened with an hypodermic needles when a thug attempted to steal his car.
"I just stood there and phoned 999. He ran off down Long Riding."Silly mechanic. Of course it is not a priority. You should not have mentioned the needle. The police don't want any of that nonsense. Besides they have more urgent calls to deal with, like this one:
An ambulance crew arrived, but more than an hour later police still hadn't shown up so paramedics radioed to find out how long they would be.
But officers instead asked Tony to make his own way to the police station.
He said: "It is unacceptable the police can't even attend an incident like this.
"They told me they have to prioritise all of their calls, but is someone being attacked with a needle not a priority?
POLICE are keen to trace an Asian family who it is thought were the victims of racial abuse.See how they "rushed" to the scene when they thought a turnip was being attacked? You should have said you were an enricher being attacked by whites and not only would the police have been there in seconds, but you would have had the Daily Mail right behind them with a cheque in one hand and a petition calling for a memorial to be build in the other.
Officers were called to Chapel Road, Worthing, at around 6.45pm on Monday, June 9, after a witness reported several men were shouting verbal abuse at the family.
Police rushed to the scene, but before they arrived the family had left.
They were able to take the details of the men thought to have shouted abuse, but until the family is traced the investigation cannot go any further.