To anyone of a certain age, the shrinking presence of the police on out streets is quite staggering.
Where I grew up, some of the villages around had police houses where the local bobby would live and glowing blue light outside made us feel safe and provided certain reassurances. Not that there was ever any crime round here.
That's because the the local pc would know all the scroats & what they were up to.
Nowadays, even the towns round here don't have police stations. In fact, even a place the size of Bath closed its police station in 2014.
They've now been relegated to a counter in the local council's "One Stop Shop" 
I don't buy this line that the Labour party is going to put more police on our streets. Wasn't it them in the first place who saddled them with mountains of paperwork & introduced the PCSO aka the "plastic plod" with all the clout of a traffic warden?
I guess, like a lot of our institutions, they were infiltrated with Common Purpose placemen back in the Blair years who are more concerned with prosecuting so called "hate crimes" rather than dealing with the day to day crime that affects the average Joe. Yes, we have our robocops as we've all seen on BBC Television over the weekend but I'm a firm believer in coming down hard and nipping stuff in the bud and that can only be done by putting beat police back on our streets and giving them the authority to do their job.
Where I grew up, some of the villages around had police houses where the local bobby would live and glowing blue light outside made us feel safe and provided certain reassurances. Not that there was ever any crime round here.
That's because the the local pc would know all the scroats & what they were up to.
Nowadays, even the towns round here don't have police stations. In fact, even a place the size of Bath closed its police station in 2014.
Bath's police station is to be sold to the University of Bath, while adjoining land will be bought by the council in a £7m deal, the force has confirmed.
Contracts have been exchanged on the Manvers Street site and the sale is due to be finalised at the end of October.
In April, the force said it wanted to reduce the number of buildings it occupied across Bristol and Somerset by 36% by 2019.
It included closing 12 police stations in Bristol and Somerset to save money.
Ch Supt Caroline Peters, the new area commander, said the force "understood the importance" of having a police presence in Bath.
Contracts have been exchanged on the Manvers Street site and the sale is due to be finalised at the end of October.
In April, the force said it wanted to reduce the number of buildings it occupied across Bristol and Somerset by 36% by 2019.
It included closing 12 police stations in Bristol and Somerset to save money.
Ch Supt Caroline Peters, the new area commander, said the force "understood the importance" of having a police presence in Bath.
I don't buy this line that the Labour party is going to put more police on our streets. Wasn't it them in the first place who saddled them with mountains of paperwork & introduced the PCSO aka the "plastic plod" with all the clout of a traffic warden?
I guess, like a lot of our institutions, they were infiltrated with Common Purpose placemen back in the Blair years who are more concerned with prosecuting so called "hate crimes" rather than dealing with the day to day crime that affects the average Joe. Yes, we have our robocops as we've all seen on BBC Television over the weekend but I'm a firm believer in coming down hard and nipping stuff in the bud and that can only be done by putting beat police back on our streets and giving them the authority to do their job.
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