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[Doctor Gollum]

Hypothetically speaking, I paid £5.5k to HMG via my Tax/NI contributions...

£1,300 went to Welfare. (This does NOT include pensions).
£1,100 to the NHS.

A paltry £234 went to Law Enforcement.

Given a choice, I would pay the Police as much as the NHS, and as little as possible to Welfare.

[Doctor Gollum]

I don't think its that simple. Like the NHS and most other public services, if the budget was unlimited the service would still be patchy at best, due to the mindset of those charged with running the show.

The mindset of the senior officers right up to Chief Constable is one of trying to bake the right cake whilst being starved of the ingredients that could make it anywhere near acceptable in the perfect world we desire. They are struggling.

To use your analagy, if they don't have the correct ingredients, then perhaps they should consider a different recipe.

Some forces are adapting better at this than others... Thames Valley/Bedfordshire were early subscribers to the strategic partnership principle, and have since further expanded the idea by working closely with Hampshire. Surrey and Sussex are effectively amalgamated in several departments.

Rationalisation is hardly a new concept though...

[plym ian]

We don't have a Police Station in my town any more, and the nearest one for Dorset Police is 10 miles away.  There are closer Devon & Cornwall stations but of course they won't come to Dorset. 

There is talk of merging Dorset Police and the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary which dosn't seem like a bad idea to me, as it would free a lot of money currently spent on replicated  backroom admin, for front line boys in blue. 

When you think about it, it's absurd that we have 39 Police Forces in England, when the job could be probably be done more effectively by 5 or 6 big regional forces or even a national force.   

You can’t really blame them for not wanting to come into Dorset.

True, those Debbem Dumplings probably think we're a bit too hard for them! 

Whats the worst that happens in Dorset? Sheep rustling 

[aaronjb]

Whats the worst that happens in Dorset? Sheep rustling 

That's one word for it..

[Mister Rog]

Whats the worst that happens in Dorset? Sheep rustling 

That's one word for it..

Not what it's called down here . . . . . 


Actually biggest problem down here is boy racers and canabis farms

[Kevin Wood]

Whats the worst that happens in Dorset? Sheep rustling 

Well, people speed in their Omegas along that bit of dual carriageway past Puddletown. <cough!> Allegedly!