Would you pay for your own Police Force?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204819/Ne...
Essentially, in this neighbourhood, all residents are paying £3 a week for their a Security Firm to patrol the suburbs and protect against crime, using the power of citizens arrest to arrest suspected criminals.
What's the PH view on this?
I can see a few problems, but I think the idea is fairly sound. I'd probably pay an extra £3 a week for this (but tbh, I'd question why I pay so much for the other lot then), but only if it yielded results. And I'm not sure that this isn't still a little bit OTT.
Would/ could this work though? And has it really come to this? How are they going to operate alongside the Police Force?
Essentially, in this neighbourhood, all residents are paying £3 a week for their a Security Firm to patrol the suburbs and protect against crime, using the power of citizens arrest to arrest suspected criminals.
What's the PH view on this?
I can see a few problems, but I think the idea is fairly sound. I'd probably pay an extra £3 a week for this (but tbh, I'd question why I pay so much for the other lot then), but only if it yielded results. And I'm not sure that this isn't still a little bit OTT.
Would/ could this work though? And has it really come to this? How are they going to operate alongside the Police Force?
Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Friday 7th August 12:20
Spiritual_Beggar said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204819/Ne...
Essentially, in this neighbourhood, all residents are paying £3 a week for their a Security Firm to patrol the suburbs and protect against crime, using the power of citizens arrest to arrest suspected criminals.
What's the PH view on this?
I can see a few problems, but I think the idea is fairly sound. I'd probably pay an extra £3 a week for this, but tbh, I'd question why I pay so much for the other lot then.
Would/ could this work though? And has it really come to this? How are they going to operate alongside the Police Force?
It appears we've gone full circle and protection rackets are now popular again.Essentially, in this neighbourhood, all residents are paying £3 a week for their a Security Firm to patrol the suburbs and protect against crime, using the power of citizens arrest to arrest suspected criminals.
What's the PH view on this?
I can see a few problems, but I think the idea is fairly sound. I'd probably pay an extra £3 a week for this, but tbh, I'd question why I pay so much for the other lot then.
Would/ could this work though? And has it really come to this? How are they going to operate alongside the Police Force?
Oakey said:
It appears we've gone full circle and protection rackets are now popular again.
It's not a protection racket, it's a good area hiring security to protect it from scummy people nearby. There are plenty of estates and roads in the UK that already hire private security. Like St Georges Hill Weybridge & Courtenay Avenue N6 for just 2 examples.However the Daily Mail is once again succeeding in creating a story of fear from it all.
It works for crims 'on foot', but they have no capabilty to, for example, stop anti-social behaviour like people screaming up and down your road in their cars.
It also raises the issue of 'free-riders' and how you provide a differentiated service in a geographical area for people who don't pay.
It also raises the issue of 'free-riders' and how you provide a differentiated service in a geographical area for people who don't pay.
It's called the police.Spiritual_Beggar said:
Oakey said:
It appears we've gone full circle and protection rackets are now popular again.
That was my thinking as well.This seems no different than a protection racket......just not the mob running it
V8mate said:
It also raises the issue of 'free-riders' and how you provide a differentiated service in a geographical area for people who don't pay.
You can't really, if the people want it so badly they will split the cost between those who want it so those who don't pay still have the benefit of the service but don't mind if it wasn't there either. I'm sure they would go ahead with it if only 50 out of the 100 hundred residents said they would pay for it.Perhaps they are covered by the general security of having the people around but have no other extra neighbourhood security like increased checks if the homeowner is on holiday and the house is empty.
I'm willing to bet that if that bloke with the cornrows wasn't wearing his work clothes the net curtain twitchers ('affluent neighbourhood' of van drivers?) would be calling the real police quite quickly.
This is just the regular OMGPANICWHITEMIDDLEENGLAND story the Mail loves.
Quite funny seeing their reporting on Jezza calling Brown a
. They really didn't know how to spin that one!
This is just the regular OMGPANICWHITEMIDDLEENGLAND story the Mail loves.
Quite funny seeing their reporting on Jezza calling Brown a
. They really didn't know how to spin that one!
Spiritual_Beggar said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204819/Ne...
Essentially, in this neighbourhood, all residents are paying £3 a week for their a Security Firm to patrol the suburbs and protect against crime, using the power of citizens arrest to arrest suspected criminals.
What's the PH view on this?
I can see a few problems, but I think the idea is fairly sound. I'd probably pay an extra £3 a week for this (but tbh, I'd question why I pay so much for the other lot then), but only if it yielded results. And I'm not sure that this isn't still a little bit OTT.
Would/ could this work though? And has it really come to this? How are they going to operate alongside the Police Force?
Great idea, then lets sack the police force cos they are completely useless anyway and they are overpaid and mostly stupid. Essentially, in this neighbourhood, all residents are paying £3 a week for their a Security Firm to patrol the suburbs and protect against crime, using the power of citizens arrest to arrest suspected criminals.
What's the PH view on this?
I can see a few problems, but I think the idea is fairly sound. I'd probably pay an extra £3 a week for this (but tbh, I'd question why I pay so much for the other lot then), but only if it yielded results. And I'm not sure that this isn't still a little bit OTT.
Would/ could this work though? And has it really come to this? How are they going to operate alongside the Police Force?
Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Friday 7th August 12:20
EDLT said:
I'm not sure they'll be much use, supermarkets have security and CCTV but they still get thieves.
Yes, but it depends on whether or not the thief gets the s**t kicked out of them then dumped by the road (as a private firm may accidentally do) or whether the police get called whilst the thief gets a nice cup of tea (as a supermarket is likely to do). Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff