| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days 09:29 - Sep 7 with 5871 views | hype313 |
Another one last night, seems like there has been one a week for months now, and some nasty sexual assaults.
If it carries on we will be twinned with Limerick. |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:37 - Sep 7 with 5777 views | linhdi |
Re stabbings, the advice of the Met is useful - you can reduce your chance of being knifed by 95% by taking one simple step. Don't carry a knife.
Re the sexual assaults. Horrible. Ipswich is not a safe place to walk around at nighttime, especially not for a female. I felt much safer when I lived in London, in one of the highest crime areas. |  | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:40 - Sep 7 with 5759 views | hype313 |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:37 - Sep 7 by linhdi |
Re stabbings, the advice of the Met is useful - you can reduce your chance of being knifed by 95% by taking one simple step. Don't carry a knife.
Re the sexual assaults. Horrible. Ipswich is not a safe place to walk around at nighttime, especially not for a female. I felt much safer when I lived in London, in one of the highest crime areas. |
The police cuts have made policing the town centre at nightime extremely hard, that's what a friend of mine in the force told me. | |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:49 - Sep 7 with 5741 views | Steve_M |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:40 - Sep 7 by hype313 |
The police cuts have made policing the town centre at nightime extremely hard, that's what a friend of mine in the force told me. |
Not a surprise. I think we'll start to see the real impact of seven years of cuts over the next few years in many areas of public life.
And that's before we trash the economy as May is intent on doing. |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:50 - Sep 7 with 5735 views | No9 |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:40 - Sep 7 by hype313 |
The police cuts have made policing the town centre at nightime extremely hard, that's what a friend of mine in the force told me. |
The reduction in police numbers in Suffolk & Norfolk is a scandal.
The PCC & CoP were under fire from Cromer residents last night over their handing of the traveller matter
But all these things really come donw to the PCC's tipping their forelock to Westminster whatever the local needs are. | | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:56 - Sep 7 with 5710 views | imsureazzure |
The shooting and death of a 14 year old boy in London was only the 4th story on the news, 14 for fuks sake, the country is being desensitisied to murder, knife crime and sexual violence.
The police and gov have no will to deal with the root causes and to blame the cuts is plain lazy. |  | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:00 - Sep 7 with 5694 views | imsureazzure |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:50 - Sep 7 by No9 |
The reduction in police numbers in Suffolk & Norfolk is a scandal.
The PCC & CoP were under fire from Cromer residents last night over their handing of the traveller matter
But all these things really come donw to the PCC's tipping their forelock to Westminster whatever the local needs are. |
It wouldnt have mattered if there had been 200 old bill in Cromer, there was no will to apprehend and arrest, 31 reported crimes 0 arrests, Irish knackers are a protected community.
Swap them for football supporters on a day out in norwich.
Police cuts blah blah blah. | | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:00 - Sep 7 with 5694 views | baxterbasics |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:56 - Sep 7 by imsureazzure |
The shooting and death of a 14 year old boy in London was only the 4th story on the news, 14 for fuks sake, the country is being desensitisied to murder, knife crime and sexual violence.
The police and gov have no will to deal with the root causes and to blame the cuts is plain lazy. |
Agree with this. I'm seeing plenty of police out and about, just they are spending all their time hunting drivers, or Twitte trolls instead of real crims. Get them off highway patrol and onto the streets. |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:04 - Sep 7 with 5674 views | No9 |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:56 - Sep 7 by imsureazzure |
The shooting and death of a 14 year old boy in London was only the 4th story on the news, 14 for fuks sake, the country is being desensitisied to murder, knife crime and sexual violence.
The police and gov have no will to deal with the root causes and to blame the cuts is plain lazy. |
Crime particular that of crime against the person in the UK has risen considerably as has crime outside urban areas.
The Police minister (also MP for GT Yarmouth) makes out crime is falling but fails to look in his own constituency so effectively the government seem , via their appointed minister, is in denial.
The cuts have reduced the numbers of police to a point where it is impossible for them to be effective, e.g where I live we have 2 (YES two) police officer to cover an area of more than 100 sq miles 24 hours a day seven days a week. This is not an isolated case.
The PCC will NOT take any representation about this and the County Councillor denies there is a problem - even when it was pointed out to him that crime are not being reported by the local officers.
It will get worse before it gets better | | | |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:08 - Sep 7 with 5659 views | Harry_Palmer |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:00 - Sep 7 by baxterbasics |
Agree with this. I'm seeing plenty of police out and about, just they are spending all their time hunting drivers, or Twitte trolls instead of real crims. Get them off highway patrol and onto the streets. |
Always a high presence of armed Police on the streets in the aftermath of a terror attack
( when the actual threat level in a place like Ipswich is miniscule ) yet they are nowhere to be seen when there is a genuine risk of safety on the streets in the town centre at night.
There's something not quite right there. |  | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:16 - Sep 7 with 5623 views | itfcjoe |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:00 - Sep 7 by baxterbasics |
Agree with this. I'm seeing plenty of police out and about, just they are spending all their time hunting drivers, or Twitte trolls instead of real crims. Get them off highway patrol and onto the streets. |
There are less bobbys ont he beat now - their time is wasted byt things that have to be investigated - but most times there will be one response team covering Ipswich, and one response team covering from Felixstowe up to Leiston.
If there is one incident they are then overstretched if anything else happens - there was a time when resource was being used badly, but nowadays there is just no resource |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:26 - Sep 7 with 5588 views | Fixed_It |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:49 - Sep 7 by Steve_M |
Not a surprise. I think we'll start to see the real impact of seven years of cuts over the next few years in many areas of public life.
And that's before we trash the economy as May is intent on doing. |
Absolutely. A mate works for the Met and some of the things he tells me about how the cuts are hitting are extremely worrying. Operational cuts had a real impact on the response to London Bridge, for example. |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:28 - Sep 7 with 5578 views | Steve_M |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:26 - Sep 7 by Fixed_It |
Absolutely. A mate works for the Met and some of the things he tells me about how the cuts are hitting are extremely worrying. Operational cuts had a real impact on the response to London Bridge, for example. |
A friend of mine is a prison officer; he's been telling me how overstretched they are for years. The consequences of that is likely to become very obvious soon as disorder becomes more widespread. | |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:34 - Sep 7 with 5564 views | No9 |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:00 - Sep 7 by baxterbasics |
Agree with this. I'm seeing plenty of police out and about, just they are spending all their time hunting drivers, or Twitte trolls instead of real crims. Get them off highway patrol and onto the streets. |
I can't recall the last time I saw a cop car on the roads of Suffolk /Essex / Norfolk
Where do you see them? | | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:36 - Sep 7 with 5551 views | No9 |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:00 - Sep 7 by imsureazzure |
It wouldnt have mattered if there had been 200 old bill in Cromer, there was no will to apprehend and arrest, 31 reported crimes 0 arrests, Irish knackers are a protected community.
Swap them for football supporters on a day out in norwich.
Police cuts blah blah blah. |
That wasn't the problem was not?
The police didn't react because they didn't have the numbers
You can't police a situation with no coppers can you? | | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 12:03 - Sep 7 with 5481 views | Fixed_It |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:56 - Sep 7 by imsureazzure |
The shooting and death of a 14 year old boy in London was only the 4th story on the news, 14 for fuks sake, the country is being desensitisied to murder, knife crime and sexual violence.
The police and gov have no will to deal with the root causes and to blame the cuts is plain lazy. |
I agree that we are becoming desensitised. I totally disagree that there is no will from the police to act. Blaming the cuts is not 'lazy'. Those in the police I speak to are extremely frustrated at having to do their jobs with their hands tied behind their backs due to lack of resources. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 12:05]
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 12:58 - Sep 7 with 5354 views | imsureazzure |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 12:03 - Sep 7 by Fixed_It |
I agree that we are becoming desensitised. I totally disagree that there is no will from the police to act. Blaming the cuts is not 'lazy'. Those in the police I speak to are extremely frustrated at having to do their jobs with their hands tied behind their backs due to lack of resources. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 12:05]
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Ok, the police have directives to prioritise different crimes, those crimes that are not seen as fashionable are the crimes that really affect neighbourhoods and town centres.
Football supporters are treated like animals because they are seen as a free shot by plod. | | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:08 - Sep 7 with 5321 views | soupytwist |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:36 - Sep 7 by No9 |
That wasn't the problem was not?
The police didn't react because they didn't have the numbers
You can't police a situation with no coppers can you? |
On the Look East report of the public meeting in Cromer where the Norfolk Chief Constable took a verbal battering from various locals one restaurant owner described a situation where his restaurant was overrun by a crowd of ne'er do wells. He and his staff tried to remove them from the premises while some police officers in cars parked opposite looked on.
Surely some kind of professional pride should kick in on the part of the police officers and they'd help out, rather than just watch? I don't get it. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 13:11]
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:35 - Sep 7 with 5233 views | blue_oyster |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:08 - Sep 7 by soupytwist |
On the Look East report of the public meeting in Cromer where the Norfolk Chief Constable took a verbal battering from various locals one restaurant owner described a situation where his restaurant was overrun by a crowd of ne'er do wells. He and his staff tried to remove them from the premises while some police officers in cars parked opposite looked on.
Surely some kind of professional pride should kick in on the part of the police officers and they'd help out, rather than just watch? I don't get it. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 13:11]
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The police voluntarily decided to withdraw from the streets a long time ago, leaving the weak to defend themselves. Their main raison d'etre now is to turn up *after* a crime has been committed, at dangerous speed, and fill in lots of forms. Then everyone wonders 'what can be done?'. |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:39 - Sep 7 with 5212 views | vapour_trail |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 10:56 - Sep 7 by imsureazzure |
The shooting and death of a 14 year old boy in London was only the 4th story on the news, 14 for fuks sake, the country is being desensitisied to murder, knife crime and sexual violence.
The police and gov have no will to deal with the root causes and to blame the cuts is plain lazy. |
Can't agree. My mate recently quit as a finance director at the met. He says the cuts have been seismic and over a prolonged period in all areas. Frontline hasn't been spared. Some govt stats will tell otherwise but he talks of people being repurposed to cover up the real story.
I'll accept that the picture painted from inside the service will be one side of the story, but you can't make the level of cuts we have had over such a sustained period and expect no negative impact.
This picture is of course replicated across most other public services. |  |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:40 - Sep 7 with 5208 views | No9 |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:08 - Sep 7 by soupytwist |
On the Look East report of the public meeting in Cromer where the Norfolk Chief Constable took a verbal battering from various locals one restaurant owner described a situation where his restaurant was overrun by a crowd of ne'er do wells. He and his staff tried to remove them from the premises while some police officers in cars parked opposite looked on.
Surely some kind of professional pride should kick in on the part of the police officers and they'd help out, rather than just watch? I don't get it. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 13:11]
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I understand the CoP (Norfolk) has now conceded they got it wrong but to show how Norfolk has been hit by police number reductions -
https://www.norfolk.polfed.org/media-releases/581-police-officers-numbers-fallin | | | |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:51 - Sep 7 with 5180 views | itfcjoe |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:39 - Sep 7 by vapour_trail |
Can't agree. My mate recently quit as a finance director at the met. He says the cuts have been seismic and over a prolonged period in all areas. Frontline hasn't been spared. Some govt stats will tell otherwise but he talks of people being repurposed to cover up the real story.
I'll accept that the picture painted from inside the service will be one side of the story, but you can't make the level of cuts we have had over such a sustained period and expect no negative impact.
This picture is of course replicated across most other public services. |
What is especially prevalent in Ipswich/Suffolk is that a lot of officers come here to wind down careers - which gives us a very top heavy police force.
So when cuts need to be made, thy get rid of the youngsters on poor contracts as they can't touch the older guys who have brilliant contracts, pensions, high salaries and even accomodation allowances in many cases which means that the cuts are felt even harder out here for the front line | |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 14:09 - Sep 7 with 5136 views | baxterbasics |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 11:34 - Sep 7 by No9 |
I can't recall the last time I saw a cop car on the roads of Suffolk /Essex / Norfolk
Where do you see them? |
To be fair, I should clarify the fact that I live on Main Road Kesgrave, just a short distance from the police HQ! | |
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 14:10 - Sep 7 with 5133 views | chambosleftboot |
Yeah but Ipswich is a bit of a dump - reducing policing around there is nonsensical. | | | |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 14:40 - Sep 7 with 5097 views | imsureazzure |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 13:08 - Sep 7 by soupytwist |
On the Look East report of the public meeting in Cromer where the Norfolk Chief Constable took a verbal battering from various locals one restaurant owner described a situation where his restaurant was overrun by a crowd of ne'er do wells. He and his staff tried to remove them from the premises while some police officers in cars parked opposite looked on.
Surely some kind of professional pride should kick in on the part of the police officers and they'd help out, rather than just watch? I don't get it. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 13:11]
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| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 14:45 - Sep 7 with 5084 views | itfcjoe |
| Getting very stabby in Ipswich these days on 14:10 - Sep 7 by chambosleftboot |
Yeah but Ipswich is a bit of a dump - reducing policing around there is nonsensical. |
At least the town has a decent football team unlike other Cities in East Anglia who suffer embarrassing 4-0 defeats to likes of Millwall.... | |
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