So if they’re not ‘losing’ our money they’re giving it away!

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In the days when we had Police officers on the streets it was a requirement that at night, all locks, bolts and bars on shops/commercial premises were checked and the keyholder called out if one was found insecure. Just one more sad reflection on the state we have reached, does Newport now have a copper on the streets at night? – just asking.

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Aaaah – the Daily Scandal Star strikes again !!!! – ‘Police Swooop …’ ‘Six Squad Cars …’ ‘Riot Van …’ – but only five officers attended, how did they manage to drive that many vehicles there then ??? Mind you, according to the Shropshire Stars own video news it was ‘dozens of police swooped …’ I doubt they could muster a dozen officers in the whole of Telford with the cutbacks in th epolice these days – can we please leave the exagerated made up gossip to the tabloids and bring the Shropshire Star back to what it once was please, a respectable purveyor of accurate truthful information.

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There were all sorts of stories going round Newport on Saturday. One member of Waitrose said that it was raided mid morning.
But there were 4 or 5 cars Fast Response Vehicles there and 3 Panda cars there 2 hours later for your info.

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So Stuart thinks it should be the police’s responsibility to check that every business is locked up securely after closing then? Not the responsibility of staff who work there?
What a ridiculous comment! Seriously…
If I was a Barclay’s customer I’d be more concerned with just how well they looked after my money, given they even forget to lock their front door!

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Vinnie/Mia, a person very, very close to where I am now sitting was, at one time in charge of Policing in Newport and other places nearby. Real policing, long since forgotten by the bright sparks who now command the Police would have allowed premises to be checked and all the other thousand and one requirements of Police to be carried out with ease. The greatest change for the worse in Policing over recent years is the demise of the foot patrol officer.
I will quote one little example of real policing.
Many years ago in Shrewsbury, at 9.0am one morning, a small window in Della Portas shop in Princess Street was found to be broken. It was reported to Police. The Superintendent, a real policeman demanded to know why it was not found by the night beat officer and dealt with during his shift. The officer was recalled from his bed to the station, he was severely reprimanded in the extreme by a Superintendent who didn’t wish to know about excuses. He took extreme umbrage that a broken window in a shop had to be reported by staff opening up and had not been found by the beat officer.
The public pay the wages and for the services of the Police, we need more of the “old school” not the new type of Superintendents and supervising officers who have a brilliant university education and as much knowledge of policing and command and leadership as the man in the moon. Want to know about the Metropolitan Police Constables carrying spools of cotton around with them on night duty to tie across vulnerable doors to check later to see if it has been broken during their patrol. When you know something about policing then you can say “what a ridiculous comment,” as it is, join those officers who seem to content themselves with riding around in vehicles and think that “public service” is a bus to take them to and from work, rather than giving the public what they are paid to do.
People must sometimes be saved from themselves and sometimes it is the Police who have to do it Mia. It is your silly logic, now adopted and applied in the Police Force which has brought our once proud and effective Police to the pathetic state that it is now in.

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