The Police Response
The BBC reports on the police response … to David Cameron:
But Sir Hugh [Orde, the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers] – who is seen as a leading contender to become the next Met Police commissioner – told the BBC on Thursday that the subsequent restoration of calm on Tuesday night had not been down to political intervention.
“The fact that politicians chose to come back [from holiday] is an irrelevance in terms of the tactics that were by then developing,” he told BBC Two’s Newsnight.
“The more robust policing tactics you saw were not a function of political interference; they were a function of the numbers being available to allow the chief constables to change their tactics.”
Hmm, ‘irrelevance” and “political interference”, I don’t think Mr. Cameron should count on police officers to vote for him.
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Given that police forces, like most other government funded entities, are facing 25% cuts. The Home Secretary say that this will not affect policing but I don’t see any flying pigs!
So, a fourth of the officers who went out to face the rocks and Molotov cocktails are going to be unemployed, just like the older guys they were facing. Then they hear the Prime Minister who was sipping wine in Tuscany claim it was their fault that the riots lasted so long.
I have to believe that among those who leave will probably be the best and brightest in the police service. Anyone who can work somewhere else will.
The guys on the front lines don’t expect medals, but they have to deeply resent what Cameron did.
How in hell do they expect to provide security for the Olympics?