Police to treat shoplifting like organised crime
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67191793
The whatabouttery in that article is giving me a headache. Does this mean that if someone calls the police for theft they will actually turn up?
The whatabouttery in that article is giving me a headache. Does this mean that if someone calls the police for theft they will actually turn up?
Probably not, unless they plan on adding some actual police officers and get rid of the investigation-starter-for-ten£200 threshold. Though to put 60 grand investment by each retailer into context, 'we' lose many, many tens of millions a year through stock loss, so unless being caught on CCTV is suddenly, magically, terrifying for the shoplifters it'll be pissing in the wind. Good use case for the creep of face recognition tech for the authorities, though, if you're conspiracy-minded.
article said:
The majority of the money will finance a specialist police team that will work within OPAL, the national policing division that oversees intelligence on serious organised acquisitive crime.
The Home Office said the team was being put together to "build a comprehensive intelligence picture of the organised crime gangs that fuel many shoplifting incidents across the country, to help target and dismantle them".
The government will contribute £30,000 in the first year.
Have they missed off a couple of zero's from that budget?The Home Office said the team was being put together to "build a comprehensive intelligence picture of the organised crime gangs that fuel many shoplifting incidents across the country, to help target and dismantle them".
The government will contribute £30,000 in the first year.
They just need to jail them, guarantee all the prolific shoplifters will have been charged and convicted of dozens of prior offences but will have been given suspended sentences.
This is a dog whistle for Tory idiots.
Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
Al Gorithum said:
This is a dog whistle for Tory idiots.
Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
Thank you. This has saved me typing a great dealWhere are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
Al Gorithum said:
This is a dog whistle for Tory idiots.
Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
Exactly, well said.Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
Al Gorithum said:
This is a dog whistle for Tory idiots.
Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
But there is always someone to point out how a police force spent a few £k putting a rainbow on one of their squad cars, and let off duty police officers wear their uniforms in a pride parade in a idiotic attempt to suggest the police are too busy being woke to cattch criminals. Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
crankedup5 said:
Problem solved, shopkeepers will fund their own ‘policing service’ in an attempt to ensure that their offers for sale are paid for. Of course that means the community that already pay for a police service now also pay for a ‘private police service’ within the cost of their shopping.
That's how it will go over the next few years. Those with the means to pay for private provision where the state is failing will do so. That might be private security for shop owners and home owners, it already means private dentists and GP's and education, and many other things. Businesses that cannot afford such private provision might close.In other words, a two tier society, but even more than it is currently. It won't matter whether the next government is blue or red: neither of them have the faintest idea how to stimulate the economic growth that would be needed to properly fund public services.
Al Gorithum said:
This is a dog whistle for Tory idiots.
Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
This is obvious to anyone with a scintilla of intelligence, yet the dog whistle seems to work for the few who keep the blue flame alive.Where are the Police numbers to investigate/catch the criminals? Where are the courts and Barristers to deal with it? Where are the prisons to incarcerate them? Clue: Tories decimated Police numbers, closed courts, pissed off Barristers and the prisons are overcrowded.
It's almost as if they're desperate to say something positive after 13 years of decline and there's an election coming up...
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