Policing (Bassetlaw)
Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department
2:30 pm
John Mann (Bassetlaw, Labour)
Luckily for the Minister, I got the figures last Friday from the chief superintendent. We have only 16 police officers covering the whole of the Bassetlaw and Newark division, and that is because all the rest are down in the city of Nottingham, which has had loads of murders. As it now has nothing like that number of murders, is it not time that the Government intervened to get the police authority to shift police back from the cities and into the rural areas and the mining communities where they are needed?
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James Clark
Posted on 29 Oct 2009 11:23 am (Report this annotation)
I get the impression that Nottinghamshire police authority and the chief constable are as thick as thieves. Indeed, I have written letters of complaint regarding unacceptable Newark police behaviour to the chief constable and she gave me the impression that personally she couldn't give a tinker's damn about my dissatisfaction and gave the concern to the chief superintendent David Wakelin.
His negative and unhelpful response gave me the feeling that its all for one and one for all and that it really is a complete waste of time complaining because clearly to my way of thinking, their moral compass, of right and wrong and how they should behave was entirely dysfunctional.
Another disappointing and seemingly dysfunctional being is the Newark MP for some of the people, that gave me the impression that he regarded the "hot spots" of Nottingham to surpass the needs of his constituents and to this day it seemed to me that he is happy to rest on his laurels while there are 2,380 police officers in Nottingham and only 16 police officers for the whole of the Bassetlaw and Newark division.
I cannot help feeling that those that are supposed to be a public service, come across like they are our master and that our views are but empty words to them of no significance and that they are incapable of pathos the quality that arouses emotions of pity or sorrow for the misfortunes of others.
To my mind and with deep regret I perceive the upper echelons of Nottinghamshire police and especially Patrick Mercer to be little better than unfeeling automatons.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.