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[oscar]

Originally Posted by spot

Do you actually believe what you wrote here?

There are some elements in there that i recognise other than that i was just being beligerant about our useless police force.

[spot]

Originally Posted by oscar

There are some elements in there that i recognise other than that i was just being beligerant about our useless police force.

Last time I rang to report what appeared to be a break-in I had a paddy wagon with three officers on site within three minutes of dialing - the response was under way while I was still providing explanatory information to the controller. That was in late 2007. I think that's fairly typical.

[Odie]

last time I phoned the police for a possible-burglary next door, I waited 15 minutes on the phone....they had no idea where my street was.

...I had to give them directions!


sad, just said.

[spot]

Originally Posted by Odie

last time I phoned the police for a possible-burglary next door, I waited 15 minutes on the phone....they had no idea where my street was...I had to tell them!

Perhaps I sounded rather more convincing, Odie. Who knows.

The first time I called out the emergency services I was eight. Ee, tip's on fire up clough, if I remember my words correctly. They were with me in five minutes, inspected tip up past clough with me and explained the nature of tips and emergencies in suitable language. In retrospect I think they did fine.

[Odie]

Originally Posted by spot

Perhaps I sounded rather more convincing, Odie. Who knows.

The first time I called out the emergency services I was eight. Ee, tip's on fire up clough, if I remember my words correctly. They were with me in five minutes, inspected tip up past clough with me and explained the nature of tips and emergencies in suitable language. In retrospect I think they did fine.

8?

they did do great!

Here, we have roughly 15 police stations, and there are just way to many calls.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by spot

Last time I rang to report what appeared to be a break-in I had a paddy wagon with three officers on site within three minutes of dialing - the response was under way while I was still providing explanatory information to the controller. That was in late 2007. I think that's fairly typical.

Sorry Spot, i believe that since 2007, our police force has declined in service. I blame government hard text book targets as partly responsible. I recently had a questionaire come in the post. Did You get one? Did you fill it in and return it? One of the questions was 'Do you trust the police'? In my mind, the doubt has to be there by the police and government that the police have lost respect and do not trust the police or they would not be trying to get a stat on it.

The Chairman of the RBL was haing a sleepless night near to your area and while looking out the window he spied a burgler getting in the window of a disabled old man across the road. He got a unit there who caught the burgler in the house red handed however, plod did stress to the Chairman that if they had not been on a break, they would never have got there in time and he just got lucky.
I call the police regually because as you know, we have a big anti-social-behaviour issue in our area. Even after bringing back the Specials to bolster numbers, police rarely attended within the hour. Often, It's three hours.
Our local police policy is to attend within 20 minutes but i have lost count of the times we have had off the record conversations with officers and they have expressed their umbrage and frustration at not being able to respond sooner.
If you go into our particular police force's website, there are some stats there for my area which give comparison percentage of crime figures.

[spot]

Originally Posted by oscar

Sorry Spot, i believe that since 2007, our police force has declined in service. .

This is Bristol| News | One in three calls to Avon and Somerset police not an emergency is less than a year old.

The target time for an operator to pick up an incoming emergency call is just 10 seconds.

Currently, operators answer 82 per cent of calls within the target time – but the police authority wants this to rise to 90 per cent. On average, each call is picked up in 13 seconds.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by spot

This is Bristol| News | One in three calls to Avon and Somerset police not an emergency is less than a year old.

The target time for an operator to pick up an incoming emergency call is just 10 seconds.

Currently, operators answer 82 per cent of calls within the target time – but the police authority wants this to rise to 90 per cent. On average, each call is picked up in 13 seconds.

I am not talking about
non emergency calls from time wasters or target time for operator pick up. I have found in general, the operator pick up has been fair. It's once they have picked up that the problem lies. It's then graded and police respond accordingly. I have learnt that anti-social-behaviour is not a priority.

[spot]

Originally Posted by oscar

I am not talking about
non emergency calls from time wasters or target time for operator pick up. I have found in general, the operator pick up has been fair. It's once they have picked up that the problem lies. It's then graded and police respond accordingly. I have learnt that anti-social-behaviour is not a priority.

So what you're missing at the moment is a proposed policy that you find acceptable, to replace the current one. Perhaps you'd like to outline what you'd prefer?

[oscar]

Originally Posted by spot

So what you're missing at the moment is a proposed policy that you find acceptable, to replace the current one. Perhaps you'd like to outline what you'd prefer?

They can not respond quicker in the main due to the force being under-manned.
Any targets set in the past or any future targets are futile until the Government invests heavilly into the Force and puts more bodies out there. Only then can they have a reasonable chance of achieving anything.