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Miss Berry form the police federation has stated in to-days Telegraph that the police are pandering to government targets. This is then alienating the middle classes who are being targeted by these targets. This section of the country would normally be supporters of the police and the aims of the police. Well to wake up and smell the coffee is fine but to do it when the coffee morning is over is a little bit late Miss Berry. It is your colleagues Miss Berry, who are doing the targeting and it’s your politically correct colleagues who were deafening the public with their silence on this targeting until now!!!
Targets, targets and more targets are the mantra of the government and senior police officers. This as all good managers know has several effects on the workforce. They either strive for the very best or they go for the lowest common denominator. Well we all know what the police have gone for. As Miss Berry, stated in the Telegraph the police target the easy to the detriment of the general public. The hardened criminals no longer fear the police so what do the police do they target the easy compliant public doing the normal things people do.
Commit Murder, rape, robbery, mug pensioners, stab teenagers, shoot teenagers, infest lives with vandalism, cause anti social behaviour and shoplifting you have rights but the easy targeted motorist has no rights. This thanks to the likes of Meredith Hughes and Richard Brunstrom who have declared war on the general public. We the British public are public enemy number 1 and have no rights thanks to the police and government.
How perverse of the police and government to deny the public the right to justice!!!
However, this fits in with the targets and makes good statistical reading (Tough on crime tough on the causes of crime).
Perception is everything these days. The perception rightly I believe is with chief constables like Meredith Hughes and Richard Brunstrom, making the public and the hard pressed motorist, public enemy number 1. Is it any wonder the public are sceptical of the police and have distain for Nu Labour?
These two self publicist chief constables target the motorist like Robert Mugabe wins elections, by hook or by crook. Then we have Ian Blair who has no credibility left with the public, who slithers on to our TV screens to tell us he knows better than all of us. How sanctimonious and predictable of a these senior police officers.
So it is no wonder the perception is that crime is an inconvenient sideshow for the police but the motorist is public enemy number one!!!
At this point I would like to know what is the motivation of the police conducting a covert speed trap on a clear dry summer’s night at 0300hrs catching a lone driver doing 35mph in a 30mph zone, and then smugly handing you’re just gotten fine and penalty points.
Then there is the question as to the getting photographic and video evidence from the police, if you have the audacity to question the speeding fine and points and the lies the police tell to screw the motorist for the £60.
I wonder how long it will be if the police get 42 day detention for terrorist suspects will some poor member of the general public who dislikes the way some snotty cop is dealing with them, be detained for 42 days for having 1984 in their briefcase
If the police are expecting the court of public opinion to support them in their pay dispute they have I’m afraid gone to the wrong address again.
If David Cameron, wants to get elected get rid of the police Political Correctness, stealth taxing speed cameras and force the police to abide by their own codes of practice and give justice to the majority not the criminal minority.
Signed fed up member of the majority middle class.