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    Met Police is ‘shrinking organisation’, Sir Mark Rowley says
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    Met Police is ‘shrinking organisation’, Sir Mark Rowley says

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    1. LukeBennett08 on

      It’s a *shrinking operation* due to budget cuts the Tories are responsible for,

      but the media will always emphasize their failures and make out they are *shirking* the responsibilities of their organisation as petty and knife crimes continue rising.

      With no more money, it’ll be tough to turn the perception around

    2. Hellchild96 on

      I recall seeing an article at some stage within the last few months outlining the Mets recruitment and resignation numbers on a month by month basis.

      In a typical month, the met was recruiting between 50 and 100 new officers. In that same month, the met was losing between 200 and 300 officers through retirement and resignation.

      Throw that in with the huge number of civilian support staff who have been cut over the past 15 years or so (and never replaced in subsequent recruitment drives) and there are less frontline officers than ever before.

      Is it any real wonder that it takes hours or even days to turn out to a burglary or robbery?.

    3. MachineHot3089 on

      This is true for most forces across the UK. Severely low staffed front line numbers with increasing admin, bureaucracy, complexity, responsibility, all in a hostile working environment.

    4. LiteratureLoud3993 on

      Good. This Tory Gestapo needs entirely disbanding and new community policing created that isn’t in anyone’s pocket.

      I’m sure there are good Met officers, they just seem to never break through the mess of the bad ones that are out there raping, killing and sharing their deeds on Whatsapp

    5. LogicKennedy on

      The pay is terrible, the funding is terrible, a lot of people hate you, you have to work with some genuine psychos and just put up with it if you don’t want your life to become hell, the work can be extremely traumatic and occasionally life-threatening, management is often incompetent, by most accounts there’s a lot of casual bigotry thrown around…

      Yeah, I can understand why most people don’t wanna stick around.

    6. SoundsVinyl on

      There is an issue with how the entire uk police force is run. In my area alone sometimes you have one police officer on shift in an area of thousands of people.
      They are overworked and treated horrendously too by superiors. Everything’s half arsed because they are exhausted after being abused by superiors and the public daily.
      Nothing more annoying than the public saying the police do nothing… yet refuse to put a statement or accept help from the police when it comes to it.
      There needs to be a massive move in changing the culture of the police and improving public relations.