• The town where 'police don't come out'
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-46261480/hartlepool-the-town-where-police-don-t-come-out?ref=BNTMedia&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0R3Vo3NuQSzec745PDFkgpXYdRD9J-yMIUrIT4ferxxxAiYWl36bpm42A My hometown and I'm moving back in February, this is a little disheartening if I'm honest
The cuts are just making everything worse across the board. I've only worked with my force for under a year and already seen how everything is crumbling down due to cuts. Our Sgt told us the other day that we need to start leaving 'low level' incidents behind because we simply don't have the time or money to deal with them. (most of the jobs are genuine shit though) The area we cover is huge, and the local stations have been shut down for us all to work in one 'central' station, which means if you need Police ASAP for a genuine emergency but you live on the border you'll be looking at at least a 20 minute wait if there's no patrol nearby.
That's a horrifying thought to be honest. I like going to pubs but don't fancy dying while I'm doing a crawl, what can you recommend I do? Wear a vest?
In all things you are your first line of defense, and that goes double when authorities can't help you. Either go to safe areas, have the ability to protect yourself, do another activity, or stay home.
And to think I'm giving up on a relationship of 6 years for this (she doesn't want to move away from her family). I am seriously conflicted because it means if I stay in North Scotland I stay with her, if I go there I leave her but I get back with my entire family however the latter seems it could prove fatal if I am in the wrong place. Fuck
How do they justify cutting the budget of emergency response. I just don't understand that should be the last thing you cut
~fiscal conservatism~
You know they always call it fiscal conservatism but a better phrase for it would be "Fuck the poor"
I do not envy the position you're in. Leaving a 6 year relationship, I'm not sure I could ever decide to give that up (unless it was failing obviously).
We are past the honeymoon period and we don't talk much anymore but we have agreed that if this is what I want to do we both reluctantly will accept it. I still love her to bits but she has been going through some mental health issues for a while and I don't think I can help her. I have tried, don't get me wrong. I have (not literally) dragged her to a psychiatrist and she got worse, her mind is incomprehensible to me. She watches anime all day long, when I try and talk to her she gets annoyed since she has to pause what she is watching. We don't go to bed together anymore and if we do it's by chance, she doesn't look after herself hygeine wise nor the flat we live in but this is a recent development in the relationship. I'm looking for reasons to go and to stay and I don't want to leave her after 6 years only to find out I hate living there, I would probably cut my life short there and then if that happened. I am not perfect either, I suffer from anxiety, depressive psychosis and a stomach ulcer which impedes my life daily, I probably have a lot of other things going on mentally also just undiagnosed. We are in a situation where we live together yet separate lives and I am searching for an answer to my problems. Earlier we were messing around after discussing staying or leaving and I decided to kiss her and it felt so right. She accepts me for who I am and whatever I do she is always there, my relationship with my parents who I would be moving in with is not as concrete as my relationship with her. They don't want me drinking which I tend to do a lot due to anxiety and also expect me to go to college and get a job yet I feel paralysed from the thought of it even though I know it could benefit me greatly. TL;DR: I could be making a huge fucking mistake by moving in with my parents
I'm from a town just outside Birmingham and I'll never forget the time a house party I was at was raided by boys in balaclavas with knives - the police told us to stay indoors as they didn't have any available units for the next 45 minutes. Try not to be disheartened by it though, stay as safe and sensible as you can.
I'll do my best. I'll probably not be going to any house parties anyway, usually just pub mostly with family. Right now I'm just split between losing the only person I've ever properly loved and moving to a new place where I have no idea if it will be better or worse. Tbh it's my parents that are influencing me to leave her as they believe she is holding me back, but I'm just trying to look after her during this bad patch she is going through
I can't believe that footage of the man pulling a shit out of his arse and dropping it on the pavement. Not completely sure how you'd police that
That and if anyone actually asks the government they'll just insist everything is fine and further cuts to policing won't matter. Same thing they do with the NHS, cut its funding constantly and pretend there's no problem when it inevitably starts struggling.
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