Reply to: Oh Dear: Funny if it wasn't so pathetic

[AlfredJPruffock]

Crime Watch


The controversy began on Thursday when Sir Ian was reporting to a meeting of his force's watchdog, the Metropolitan Police Authority, on the controversial pre-dawn operation to remove anti-war protester Brian Haw's placards from Parliament Square, outside the House of Commons. Sir Ian told the authority that the task involved a 78 officers and cost £7,200.

But at a meeting of his senior management team the following day, the matter was discussed, and Sir Ian accepted that he misled authority members about the cost. When details of these remarks were passed to the media, the Met chief was forced to send an e-mail to authority members saying the total figure, including officers' salaries, was in fact four times higher at £27,754.

[Mailman]

Sorry to dissapoint you MM but in fact the 27 grand for this operation is coming out of your pocket ie paid by your taxes.

Revel in Your Time

Which part of it came out of my pocket? (if I was contracting I would have used the good old "I dont pay tax" angle! ).

Mailman

[AlfredJPruffock]

Tough on Crime


ABI spokesman Malcolm Tarling said: "Only a handful of police forces have their own fraud squad and fraud is given too-low a priority because forces don't have the resources to tackle it properly."


Insurance scams alone cost £1.5bn a year adding five per cent - £50 or more - to the premiums we pay for home, car, travel and health insurance.

The study reveals shocking examples of the police and judicial system failing to prosecute fraudsters:


A gang that staged more than 400 car accidents around a major city escaped justice.

Every incident involved a driver "inducing" an accident with an innocent motorist.

The insurers gave the evidence to the police together with information showing that the gang were using the money they made to fund drugtrafficking, prostitution and gun-running.


But the police refused to prosecute unless the insurers footed the bill.



Its not just the money: arson is also endangering lives while the cost of commercial insurance fraud inflates the prices we pay in the shops.

ABI director Nick Starling says that losses have doubled in five years with criminal gangs making as much money from stings as from drugs.

"The extent of fraud is underestimated and its detection underresourced. Yet its impact is very real and serious," he said. The group has submitted its report to a government fraud review calling for more money and manpower to be given to the police to tackle fraud.


ABI spokesman Malcolm Tarling said: "Only a handful of police forces have their own fraud squad and fraud is given too-low a priority because forces don't have the resources to tackle it properly."

[AlfredJPruffock]

1. Hope they pass the cost of this operation on to the dole bludger to pay!

2. Hope they do him for evasion of council tax since I doubt the fecker has paid any council tax on the property he lives at!

Mailman

Sorry to dissapoint you MM but in fact the 27 grand for this operation is coming out of your pocket ie paid by your taxes.

Revel in Your Time

[Mailman]

1. Hope they pass the cost of this operation on to the dole bludger to pay!

2. Hope they do him for evasion of council tax since I doubt the fecker has paid any council tax on the property he lives at!

Mailman

[Mordac]

Are we blaming the police for this Alf?

No, but the criminal classes are hardly tulipting themselves knowing half the Met are trying to get one 57 year old geezer to stop shouting "Bliar is a c**t" while waving oversize banners, are they?

[TheMonkey]

LEYTON, LONDON

All of the above crimes were also committed here but they couldn't do anything as they were afraid to be brought up on racism charges.

[stackpole]

Are we blaming the police for this Alf?

I blame the huge increase in electromagnetic radiation over the years cooking people's brains.

That, and the lack of a real war to send all our youth to.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Galloway?

Thanks Dave,that will do nicely.

Im safer
Hope youre safer too

Anyway its good to see that Plod has concentrated all of its resources on this dangerous criminal now I feel so safe.

Tough on Crime,its all so reassuring, I might start to purr with contentment.


A weekend of violence across the country

GLASGOW

* A 17-year-old was stabbed early on Sunday as he got out of a taxi. He is in a serious condition in hospital.

* A man, 20, was shot and seriously wounded late on Sunday.

* A man, 34, is seriously ill in hospital after he was shot by police on Saturday after police were called to an armed robbery.

EDINBURGH

* Police were hunting two men after a man was stabbed on Saturday.

CUMBRIA

* Nineteen incidents include the death on Saturday of Thomas Grant, from a single stab wound to the heart while travelling on a train.

* A man aged 30 was arrested after "swaggering" around on Friday waving a replica handgun.

WEST YORKSHIRE

* At least 20 incidents involving knives over the weekend.

BIRMINGHAM

* A 14-year-old boy was stabbed outside school on Friday. Three youths have been arrested.

* A man was stabbed to death early yesterday in the Hockley area.

NORWICH, NORFOLK

* A boy aged nine and his eight-year-old sister were robbed at knifepoint on Saturday lunchtime while shopping.

LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK

* A domestic-related stabbing was reported yesterday morning and a woman aged 45 detained. Her husband was in hospital.

KILBURN, LONDON

* A man aged 32 was stabbed early on Sunday after he asked youths to stop smoking on a bus.

PURFLEET, ESSEX

* A woman aged 26 was in a "very serious condition" in hospital after a stabbing outside a pub following a large fight early on Sunday.

BALLYCASTLE, CO ANTRIM

* A man was stabbed on Friday when he came to the aid of a woman threatened with a knife in a park. A suspect has been charged.

CATFORD, LONDON

* In a shooting outside a nightclub early on Friday, five people, including two women, were injured. Three men arrested.

CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES

* After a shooting early on Sunday at a nightclub, a man aged 18 was in hospital in a stable condition, and an 18-year-old was arrested.

NOTTINGHAM

* Two men were detained in hospital on Saturday morning with serious stab wounds after arriving at a casualty department in a car. The men, aged 26 and 35, had both suffered stomach wounds.

* A man aged 26 was in critical condition in hospital after an unprovoked attack early on Sunday.

BRIDGNORTH, SHROPSHIRE

* A man aged 18 was repeatedly stabbed at a hotel early on Sunday. A man was arrested but bailed pending inquiries.

[DaveB]

the same 5 to resubmit the business case with extra funding for overtime

Yes if theres only one thing that Plod have managed to hit the targets for under NL its overtime, if anybody has read Irvine Welshs dainty novel FILTH then the form OT7 may spring to mind.

Clearly it was necessary to spend 23 grand of the hard working UK taxpayers money given Mr Haws established links with Saddam, whoops ... no whats his name, Mahoud er oh well , somebody with a dodgy foreign name.

Galloway?

[AlfredJPruffock]

the same 5 to resubmit the business case with extra funding for overtime

Yes if theres only one thing that Plod have managed to hit the targets for under NL its overtime, if anybody has read Irvine Welshs dainty novel FILTH then the form OT7 may spring to mind.

Clearly it was necessary to spend 23 grand of the hard working UK taxpayers money given Mr Haws established links with Saddam, whoops ... no whats his name, Mahoud er oh well , somebody with a dodgy foreign name.

As long as we are safer then better not ask too many questions.

[Mordac]

78 police officers eh? Probably works something like this:
5 to prepare the strategy
5 to blend the tactics with the strategy
5 to submit the business case for the strategy and tactics to the Home Orifice
the same 5 to resubmit the business case with extra funding for overtime
20 plods to execute the tactics
20 plods as back-up
20 plods as back-up to the back-up
3 strategists overseeing the operation

and we wonder why there are no plods on the street?

So who the f**k was making the tea?

[ALM]

78 police officers eh? Probably works something like this:
5 to prepare the strategy
5 to blend the tactics with the strategy
5 to submit the business case for the strategy and tactics to the Home Orifice
the same 5 to resubmit the business case with extra funding for overtime
20 plods to execute the tactics
20 plods as back-up
20 plods as back-up to the back-up
3 strategists overseeing the operation

and we wonder why there are no plods on the street?

So true. How long before they outsource arrests too?

[Swamp Thing]

78 police officers eh? Probably works something like this:
5 to prepare the strategy
5 to blend the tactics with the strategy
5 to submit the business case for the strategy and tactics to the Home Orifice
the same 5 to resubmit the business case with extra funding for overtime
20 plods to execute the tactics
20 plods as back-up
20 plods as back-up to the back-up
3 strategists overseeing the operation

and we wonder why there are no plods on the street?

[AlfredJPruffock]

Seventy Eight policemen to arrest one peace prostestor, irrespective of Mr Haws cause, this marks a Day of Shame for Socialist Britain.

NB The Dangerous Organised Criminal Act was scripted by Tony Blair himself with the sole intention of targetting Mr Haws protest.