The media really ***** me off sometimes

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Telegraph and the Mail today having a go at the Met for prioritising those with English as a second language. "Fury" at this they say.

They wouldn't possibly say the Met are having to do this because of the ridiculous Goverment cuts now would they. That's just too truthful.
 
GTiPUG said:
I don't get why you're so enraged, it's legitimately concerning.

If we're all seen as equals as this do gooder mentality would have us believe, why the hell should any demographic get priority?
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Because it's not like they're doing it because they want to clearly. It's actually about vulnerability with the elderly being at the top of the Met's list.

We shouldn't have to prioritise anyone but when the Government continues to say they care about security and then carries on cutting, things like this are inevitable.
 
Well with all these cuts some form of triage, to use the Met Chiefs words, is essential. However the way they prioritise this process is open to criticism. Personally, cases should be dealt with on a case by case basis in my opinion, as opposed to prioritising cases before the case has even been investigated. Again though, it's about managing dwindling resources with a cash strapped police force.
 
I suspect there is an element of drawing attention to a lack of resources by highlighting it with an issue he knows will get tabloids frothing to make a drama out of it.
 
It is an utterly ludicrous suggestion that crime victims should be treated differently based on arbitrary factors unrelated to the crime.

It's a classic case of a public body doing something controversial to try and avoid cuts by causing outrage, rather than managing their budget. The same technique that leads to councils closing libraries and switching off streetlights rather than addressing workforce costs.
 
Dolph said:
It is an utterly ludicrous suggestion that crime victims should be treated differently based on arbitrary factors unrelated to the crime.

It's a classic case of a public body doing something controversial to try and avoid cuts by causing outrage, rather than managing their budget. The same technique that leads to councils closing libraries and switching off streetlights rather than addressing workforce costs.
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It is odd though don't you think that these kinds of things have been on the rise since the swathing cuts as of 2010.
 
Vulnerability can manifest itself in a number of ways: people with learning difficulties, a whole range of things, some people for whom English isn’t a first language.

'That’s about how we get those resources focused on the things you can make a difference with. But also as we go forward, as demand grows, you have to have a way of controlling and triaging.
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Well that is annoyingly sensible. I can't be outraged at this! :mad:
 
Gigabit said:
It is odd though don't you think that these kinds of things have been on the rise since the swathing cuts as of 2010.
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Not really, there have been budget reductions (mostly budgets not rising as fast as planned rather than actual reductions), so in the absence of customer choice, councils and public bodies can punish the service users rather than manage their costs to meet the new budget.
 
Dolph said:
Not really, there have been budget reductions (mostly budgets not rising as fast as planned rather than actual reductions), so in the absence of customer choice, councils and public bodies can punish the service users rather than manage their costs to meet the new budget.
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Except in this case they have had actual budget cuts iirc, while costs risen and have had to be selling off assets to plug the funding hole

In 2014/15, The Met had total expenditure of £3,208m (down from £3,692m in 2011/12)

The force has said it expected to have to make cuts of £800m to its £3.5bn budget over the next four years.

This is coming after cuts of £600m made over the last four years
 
Dolph said:
Not really, there have been budget reductions (mostly budgets not rising as fast as planned rather than actual reductions), so in the absence of customer choice, councils and public bodies can punish the service users rather than manage their costs to meet the new budget.
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They are managing their costs by prioritising the most vulnerable.
 
Woden said:
They are managing their costs by prioritising the most vulnerable.
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They have choices, this is the one they have chosen. It should be criticised the same as it would be if they declared they were not going to investigate crimes as thoroughly where the victim is disabled, or poor, for example.

Remember, this is about investigating crime, not supporting victims of crime. The right to have your crime investigated should not be altered by arbitrary factors in any way.
 
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