A total of 22,753 officers serving in the Met Police have not made one arrest from April 1 2021 to March 31 this year, new 'jaw dropping' figures reveal.
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this next one is like some fraud/deception and I'm surprised a huge fuss wasn't made about it
Police tasked with cracking down on crime in a tough neighbourhood have been accused of 'superficial' patrolling after being spotted pulling up in their cars, taking selfies and driving away.
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literally pretending to police areas
Pride police cars are ridiculous and I bet someone got paid silly money for designing them, there's nearly always 2 parked in Newcastle city centre.
no officers with them just parked up on display woke signalling
there's usually another car with he same pride crap parked directly with it.
waste of police vehicles
The 7 in 10 officers "not making an arrest" is probably rubbish or the Mail being it's typical deceitful and misleading self*, given they're almost certainly going to be including any and all officers (and likely support staff given the accuracy of their normal reporting) in which case there are a large number of officers who simply don't do arrests as standard because of the sort of job they do, and many others probably won't be included in "this officer made an arrest" because they were working with a partner whose name went on the paperwork (or for example if you work murders/major drug cases there might be dozens of hundreds of officers involved for weeks at a go, only one or two of them will officially be named as the one making the arrest).
It also probably doesn't allow for the fact that many offences that are extremely common don't usually require arrests, for example the vast majority of motoring offences do not involve an arrest because they're dealt with things like FPN's, the same is true for huge numbers of other non motoring offences.
Indeed it sounds like they're getting in to support the idea that police are magically going to immediately start to solve 20% more of all crimes because it's obvious that the only reason they've not been solving them previously was because they didn't want to.
As for those vehicles, those look like typical support unit or tech unit vehicles, and yes they do tend to get parked up next to each other a lot of the time, because they're often carrying equipment or had additional officers, and oddly enough when the officers need to go into a building they tend not to drive the van through the doors...
I'll frequently see parked up police vehicles in my town without officers in, usually because the officers have used it to *gasps* travel, and then got out to do whatever it is they're doing, my highstreet even has a permanent marked spot for police vehicles in what is a very good location for them to attend anywhere on the high street but be able to get back to it and head out again fast if needed (this is in addition to the spaces they've got outside the nearby firestation to allow officers to use their facilities as the local police station was shuttered about 15 years ago and the nearest one is now 30-45 minutes away).
It's almost like the police use cars and vans to move around and leave them empty when parked up.
Also "patrolling" can mean walking on foot, it can also mean driving around the area, now if you've got a large area and very few officers available due to say 12 years of constant cuts in police officers, and cuts in support staff meaning that your remaining officers are now doing jobs that used to be done by cheaper civvies**, then you either don't have your officers show up at all, have them show up and spend a long time say walking down one street at a time, or you have them popping up all over the area and in this day and age you might want to have them take pictures to post on the various social media platforms the police use in the hope that the combination of showing up at random and advertising it helps to make up for the fact you don't have enough officers to flood the area by making it obvious that they're in the area (you are basically making them as obvious as possible).
Personally I'd much rather have more officers on foot to be obvious, but given the lack of officers that would likely cause serious issues with responding to anything that happened anything more than a couple of hundred meters away.
*Usually around the last line of a DM clickbait article about waste or overspending, or people "not doing their jobs" they'll have just enough of the truth to save them getting sued (they hope).
**Anyone else remember when the government kept telling us the cuts to the police funding were fine and dandy because it wasn't officers in uniform getting cut? ignore the fact that a £30k a year officer who has cost 10's of thousands and months/years to train is now doing the job of an £20k civvie who could do it faster and more efficiently (as it was literally their only job and so might have been doing it to support an entire team of officers).
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