Over at the Ministry of Truth, Unity has some typically interesting things to say about the Tories’ “mini manifesto” on crime. Its a short (for him) post about that old chestnut – the way the police are being hampered by supposedly spending more time filling in forms than pounding the beat. Some very good points […]
Entries Tagged as 'Police'
Tying the police up in red tape
August 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Tying the police up in red tape · Politics
Tollgate Express
July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
At last night’s Broadfield Forum there were some concerns raised about the new shop (Tollgate Express) which is to open in Mann Close very soon. Some residents from that estate who are experiencing some nasty-sounding anti-social behaviour from groups of abusive youngsters there are worried that the shop may encourage them to hang around, and […]
Tags: Broadfield·Broadfield Forum·Crawley Council·Police·Shopping·Town Planning
Taxing issues
June 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
A couple of weeks ago our street was visited by officers of the law who clamped several untaxed cars. One was released a few hours later after some negotiation about whether the bit of road it was on is actually public highway (a small part of our road is officially unadopted and the car was […]
Meeting the police
January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Meeting the police · Life
Nick Somers, one of our local PCSOs, was in our road this afternoon delivering a leaflet to all houses advertising something called a street briefing. The idea seems to be that they will hang around in our street for a couple of hours next Tuesday evening with their mobile CCTV van and anyone who wants […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Crime/ASB·Police
Sussex Police Authority
October 12th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life
Jayne and I went along to K2 for the six-monthly public meeting of the Sussex Police Authority. After the chaos and disorder of last week’s constituency meeting, where I believe I offered several people “outside” at one point, it was relaxing to go to a relatively calm meeting. Of course, the presence of 3 or […]
Police activity
September 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on Police activity · Life
I was a bit later home than normal yesterday, having gone for a quick drink after work with a colleague who is leaving this week. When I got back to Broadfield there were three police cars parked by the Tollgate Hill roundabout on the A264 , another couple parked at the top of Tollgate Hill, […]
Tags: Broadfield·Police·WTF
Public meeting about antisocial behaviour
July 4th, 2006 · Comments Off on Public meeting about antisocial behaviour · Politics
Tonight there was a partially successful public meeting in the Broadfield community centre about antisocial behaviour – it all depends on how you define success. Obviously the wider problems of antisocial behaviour were not solved, and no individual problems were solved, so if anyone had turned up expecting a magic wand to be waved they […]
Tags: Broadfield·Broadfield Forum·BYCC·CAB·Crawley·Crawley Council·Crime/ASB·Police·WSCC
Bad planning?
April 17th, 2006 · Comments Off on Bad planning? · Life
Whoever plans the football fixtures could have done better today. I arrived at Waterloo just as a train pulled in from the South coast. I thought it was Charlton supporters coming back from the Portsmouth game, but there were a lot of police there for Charlton supporters. Then I realised it was Millwall supporters coming […]
Britain’s worst criminal?
March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Britain’s worst criminal? · Life
Jayne was in the community centre today and heard a great story about a recent crime there. A lady had left her handbag lying around and someone had gone through it and taken some car keys from it. A few days later the car was stolen and abandoned. Meanwhile a boy had been hanging around […]