Boris to remove hundreds of police officers
Tory Troll blogger Adam Bienkov reports:
Boris Johnson today denied that he will reduce the number of police officers in London, despite proposing to do just that last week.
The Mayor’s budget consultation unequivocally states that:
Over the three years to 2012-13, the number of Police Officers is forecast to decrease by 455, while PCSOs remain the same and Special Constables increase by 2,690.
Yet when Liberal Democrat Assembly Member Dee Doocey, put this to him today he told her that she was “completely wrong.”
The London and national press has yet to pick up on the story – perhaps unwilling to believe a Mayor who promised to increase the number of police officers would do the exact opposite.
Adam ends by saying:
When Gordon Brown suggested that Boris would cut the police budget and police numbers, Boris accused him of misleading the house.
In reality Boris has now done both.
Sounds like the flip-flopping Mayor is carrying on as normal.
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Where are they going to get the extra Special constables from, and why increase them so much whilst decreasing full time police?
Interesting to note how Boris expects to increase the Specials by 2,690.
Well, I find it interesting. Specials are a) volunteers and b) in bloody short supply across the UK. Where does he expect to get an additional 2,690 people in London who want to work for free during the shit shifts of Friday and Saturday night?
I doubt very much if Boris has this in mind, but I’d support disciplining policemen who cover up their identifying insignia so that they can beat up demonstrators with impunity, and for sacking senior staff who have failed to tackle and may even have encouraged this behaviour, along with the use of agents provocateur to “justify” heavy-handed policing.
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