In message , Steve Firth
writes
The excuse given for taking coppers away was "there had been no significant
crime in the area for a number of years." Well surprise, surprise, it looks
like those coppers may well have been doing something after all.
How stupid, surely having police on the beat only bumps up the crime
figures as they keep on arresting people and having to record the fact.
Much better to have no police on the beat and no method of reporting
crime, then the figures would look brilliant, 100% drop in reported
crime and 100% drop in arrests!

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Clint Sharp