Policing On The Cheap
In the UK today we have Plastic Plods = Police Community Support Officers and now Jacqui Smith's Irregulars.This is policing on the cheap, pulling the wool over the public�s eyes, conning them into believing that our streets are safer, this is total nonsense.
There is now a growing army of security guards and town hall snoopers with sweeping police-style powers being quietly established behind the backs of the British public, I can only wonder why all the secrecy is necessary.It appears that people such as park wardens, dog wardens, car park attendants and even shopping centre guards after paying a small fee to their local police force will receive these powers under the Home Office-run scheme.
Demanding a person�s name and address on the street and handing out �60 fines for dropping litter are just two of the new powers they will have.�Even a police officer cannot demand your name and address on the street if you have done nothing wrong�
Under the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme, the number of civilians wearing a special badge, and a uniform approved by the local chief constable, has rocketed by almost 30 per cent in a year and there are now 1,406.
Critics claim Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is quietly seeking to create a third-tier within the 'policing family', with even less training and accountability than the controversial Police Community Support Officers.
The civilians are known as Accredited Persons, but they have been nicknamed 'Jacqui Smith's Irregulars'. The only significant difference between them and PCSOs is that they do not have the power to detain a suspect. Instead, they have to summon police.
Councils and other public sector organisations must pay between �300 and �315 to be accredited to the scheme, and between �35 to �90 per employee.
In the private sector, the costs are between �450 and �600 per employer, and �32 to �132 per employee. They are then given access to a hotline - to report their intelligence to the police.
Police forces are struggling to find funds to maintain the current level of around 142,000 fully-trained officers, and efforts to recruit more PCSOs - nicknamed 'Plastic Plods' - have also stalled due to a lack of funds.
In 2005 and 2006, the number of civilians given powers under the scheme was static at 945. But they increased to 1,102 in 2007, before last year's big rise.
Simon Reed, vice chairman of the rank-and-file Police Federation, said the scheme was a 'con' on the public by giving the impression of more law enforcers on the street. 'The public are being hoodwinked if they think the streets are any safer, and they would be shocked if they knew what powers Accredited Persons are being given,' he said. 'It is policing on the cheap. These people are given cursory background checks and minimal training. We are concerned about some of the people who are slipping through the net.'
Phil Booth, of the NO2ID privacy campaign, said: 'This sharp increase in Jacqui Smith's Irregulars makes you wonder what her policing ambitions are.'
A Home Office spokesman said: 'The Police Reform Act 2002 requires a chief officer to be satisfied that an applicant is both suitable and has received adequate training to exercise Community Safety Accreditation Scheme powers.'
So basically they are putting �uniformed curtain twitchers� on to our streets to con us in to thinking that we are safer at a time of great worry for many as we face an unprecedented terrorist threat not only from around the world but from within.
NF Policy is for a new NATIONAL POLICE FORCE - dedicated to tackling REAL crime and not carrying our the Politically Correct diktats of the likes of Jaqui ("Five Homes?") Smith and her Marxist Labour like. The reform the of the police service and the end of the current liberal regime which actively promotes anti-White racism in the police force is a definite priority for a National Front government in power.
