A Complete Waste of Space

Bobbies told not to arrest

A CASH-strapped police force has ordered its bobbies to slash the number of criminals they arrest — to save money.
Staffordshire cops will use the PHONE to deal with crime reports when possible and will respond to fewer incidents than before.

Bosses made the controversial decision after nearly £500,000 was spent on management consultants.

The move means problems like anti-social behaviour and neighbour disputes will be dealt with by local councils rather than by cops.

Chief Constable Mike Cunningham admitted that nicking crooks was the best course but said his force had no choice.

Every arrest creates eight hours of expensive admin work.
And more offenders will be given fixed penalty notices instead of being formally arrested.

One angry resident said on an internet forum: "What next, murder and get let off on the phone?"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... rrest.html

I thought that was going to ba an onion article not the sun, and how long till we get an article aboot the police having a piss and a moan about people dishing out a bit of vigilante justice

Guys, don't use The Sun as a news source, more a backup source of toilet paper, that is the only reason anyone would buy it.

I think what The Sun has, in it's usual reactionary way, reported is that low level crime, like noisy neighbours and maybe kids making noise could be dealt with this way instead of sending out cops who should be dealing with more serious stuff.

I find that page3 is the only reliable source there.....
Rupert seems to like it as well....

The article suggests that all though you might need the police?
You could get a ding-a-ling.....instead.