Police Should Remain Our Servants

Michael Wale says the police should not be given more personal power. They should remain our servants.

I was talking with a barrister the other day, who was defending at least six alleged terrorists. He gave me some interesting figures that show police power does not always equal justice.

Over the past year or so the police have arrested 700 alleged terrorists. Of those 110 were charged. Of those 110, 1 in 10 were actually found guilty. Everyone in the legal system knows how ineffectual the Criminal Prosecution Service is, closely followed by the police who provide the evidence.

Of course there are terrorist plots going on in this country, because the Labour government under their liberal politically correct mantra have allowed absolute rogues from countries across the world not only to stay here, but disperse their vile propaganda across the world’s airwaves.

Now this poodle of a Government have reaped the worst for the rest of us. They sowed all this with their appalling politically correct membership.

Now the police want even more powers, so that they do not have to come to court to slap various orders on the young and the rest of us. Beware of the police, I say. Many of them are well trained and intelligent, but the majority seem not to have taken in their training, and remain rather basic.

When first arrested most people are released on police bail. We have found in the youth court, time and time again, the bail conditions to be ludicrous. For example, a youth who committed an alleged crime in mid-afternoon is slapped with a bail order of a curfew that he or she has to be in their home by 7pm until 7am the next morning. What is the point of that, apart from penalising an often over-crowded family.

Far from increasing the powers of the police I would be reducing them. The more that is brought before the courts today the better. That is true transparency as this wretched government and the rest of its law makers keep saying it wants. Well, there is no transparency in a police force that in London shoots someone dead with four bullets into the head while lying prone on the floor of a tube train. And then only is charged with a Health and Safety charge. For God’s sake who is kidding whom. The woman who ordered this operation should have been sacked by now with no pension or any other recompense. Especially as she went both to Oxford and Cambridge.

And yet the police want powers to slap what are total banning orders without the courts. This must not be allowed.

I am all for the proper powers of the police, the trouble is that they do not use their present powers. Most of what they ask for more powers they already have the right of arrest and prosecution. Why do they need yet more powers when they are not doing their job properly in the first place.?>

A friend of mine only the other day saw a young person riding one of those mini-motor bikes along the pavement. Evidently nothing wrong in that, only that he did not have a crash helmet and he was putting other pavement users in danger. Then he transferred to the public highway, where he was taken on by another youth on a similar mini-bike and they raced each other up and around the road. My friend rang the police. They replied that there was nothing they could do about it. My friend then said if that was the case he would race his car without a number plate up and down the same road. Thank you very much.

It is the police who are often the idiots. They should get involved in real life and stop thinking they are the front line against alleged terrorists, and get on with their job, like walking up and down our streets, which they find far too boring. They stay in their cars and end up, as always getting fatter and fatter in the police canteen.

Wake up, I say and serve us as we pay you to do.