Shropshire Star

Letter: Sympathy for the police

It was with a mixture of dismay and despair that I viewed the BBC programme "Police Under Pressure."

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As the result of swingeing budget cuts the police are hopelessly under-manned, under-resourced and consequently ill-prepared to address the social unrest that is fermenting in erstwhile peaceful communities throughout the country.

Cultural, religious and ideological integration is clearly not happening, and the failed social-engineering experiment that is New Labour's legacy should urgently be recognised.

What came across was the sheer impotence of the police in how to handle the volume of incidents, many of them minor in themselves, but cumulatively destructive to peaceful co-existence. One felt sorry for the police who are rapidly becoming totally demoralised in trying to reconcile an entirely untenable situation.

It seems the Government is in denial, when instead of recruiting they are still cutting police numbers.

Have they gone mad? Are they so isolated from the problems facing our emergency services that they can't see we need more, not less, police, nurses, doctors, ambulances, firemen and prison officers if we are to accommodate the increasing pressures that unchecked immigration has brought?

It may not be politically correct to raise such issues, but to dismiss such concerns is to invite anarchy!

If we are so short of funds, David Cameron should forget about wasting more than £50 billion on HS2, forget overseas aid, and instead of giving £50 million a day to the EU, perhaps it's about time the EU gave us the funds necessary to address the problems that our membership of that institution has foist upon us.

A J Willetts, Craven Arms

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