It is an interesting change of position for the Police and the Commissioner now to acknowledge something that they steadfastly denied for years earlier - that the centre of Kettering is a high crime area and that Police resources are insufficient to combat it adequately. This is something that we should be remembering, next time the Commissioner comes up for election. He is the one responsible for Police resourcing. He is also the one who spent years in the earlier part of his incumbancy trying to "dine out" on how low his precept was. While the precept isn't the only source of revenue for the Police, it is a major part, and the long history of keeping it low is a significant part of the resource shortage now.
Separately from my earlier post (or perhaps not!), I would also point out, rather obviously, that if the Chief Constable's "harrowing information" was credible and did not reflect badly on either him or the Commissioner, then neither of them would have had the slightest problem with putting it in the public domain.
As usual the so called "anti-racist" police and Criminal Commissioner show their hypocracy.
Without any evidence whatsoever they pander to popular prejudice (linking crime with asylum seekers and disease) whilst saying "I fully accept the need for displaced migrants to be placed across the country and for us all to play a part in supporting them while their individual cases are assessed." Just not in "our" backyard it seems, whilst doing absolutely nothing to suggest alternatives.
Where is the humanity? Where is the same outpouring of support and welcome that Ukrainian refugees got? Now we just just get racist, xenophobic, bile.
It is an interesting change of position for the Police and the Commissioner now to acknowledge something that they steadfastly denied for years earlier - that the centre of Kettering is a high crime area and that Police resources are insufficient to combat it adequately. This is something that we should be remembering, next time the Commissioner comes up for election. He is the one responsible for Police resourcing. He is also the one who spent years in the earlier part of his incumbancy trying to "dine out" on how low his precept was. While the precept isn't the only source of revenue for the Police, it is a major part, and the long history of keeping it low is a significant part of the resource shortage now.
Separately from my earlier post (or perhaps not!), I would also point out, rather obviously, that if the Chief Constable's "harrowing information" was credible and did not reflect badly on either him or the Commissioner, then neither of them would have had the slightest problem with putting it in the public domain.
As usual the so called "anti-racist" police and Criminal Commissioner show their hypocracy.
Without any evidence whatsoever they pander to popular prejudice (linking crime with asylum seekers and disease) whilst saying "I fully accept the need for displaced migrants to be placed across the country and for us all to play a part in supporting them while their individual cases are assessed." Just not in "our" backyard it seems, whilst doing absolutely nothing to suggest alternatives.
Where is the humanity? Where is the same outpouring of support and welcome that Ukrainian refugees got? Now we just just get racist, xenophobic, bile.
We should welcome asylum seekers after all they have been through.
There is a lot of crime in Kettering and the police need to get on and do the job so that it's safe for these people.
It's time to stop the xenophobia and racism.