From: Christine McDade, Morton on Swale.
ON national television on Monday night, Theresa May stated that the dreadful rise in knife crime was not related to huge reduction in police officers in this country. To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davis during the Profumo scandal, she would say that, wouldnt she?
She was the hugely unpopular Home Secretary (within the Police Service) who started the cutbacks when all forces were asking for increases.
Those cutbacks have continued at a rate and we are served by a police service which is understaffed, underequipped and under great pressure.
Of course, if the police are not out on the streets, less checks will be made and fewer knife crimes i.e. carrying an offensive weapon, will b…
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