Brixton tube: metal detectors and machine-gun toting police!

[Gixxer1000]

i see bobbies on the beat every day actually. just wandering around brixton in their ones, twos and threes.

so how come you support the action this thread is about, which as d_b has said, the benefit of which cannot be measured, but mourn the loss of beat bobbies (which haven't actually been lost) blaming the same issue.

Brain into gear before keyboard into action, young fella. I think you will find there isnt a contradiction and police presence at known crime hotspots dosent constitute a "beat",incidentally if beat bobbies havent been lost kindly name your local one. (Back onto ignore you go)

 

[bluestreak]

there is none so blind as those who will not see.

hey donna, can we have a nice rhyme about people who refuse to recognise contradictions in their worldview, and perhaps one that mocks the view that the whole of brixton is a crime hotspot, and also one that suggests one doesn't need to know the names of all your local nick in order to see them on the beat?

although i do know the name of urban75's resident beat officer. where is brian these days?

 

[tarannau]

Brain into gear before keyboard into action, young fella. I think you will find there isnt a contradiction and police presence at known crime hotspots dosent constitute a "beat",incidentally if beat bobbies havent been lost kindly name your local one. (Back onto ignore you go)

There was a picture of our 'neigbourhood team' posted in a local shop window, but I can't remember their names. Within hours some wag had drawn moustaches on and scribbled 'police is paedophiles' (sic). It didn't last very long.

I see plenty of coppers on the beat, although I do live fairly central in Brixton. Does it really matter that I don't know them by name? It's hardly a village atmosphere where people have traditionally wanted to know their pc by name?

 

[Gixxer1000]

'police is paedophiles' (sic).

Well those of us living in the relative leafy surburbia that is the environs of Brixton Hill (and having lived there considerably longer than 6 months ie 45yrs), are suffering from displaced crime and no beat officers

 

[tarannau]

If it's any compensation, I used to live in Brixton Hill as a kid. We certainly had names for the local officers, but we didn't know any by name...

 

[pooka]

Well those of us living in the relative leafy surburbia that is the environs of Brixton Hill (and having lived there considerably longer than 6 months ie 45yrs), are suffering from displaced crime and no beat officers

Try here

 

[Gixxer1000]

Try here

Nice website, not seen any of Balhams finest on the streets of Brixton Hill though.

 

[RushcroftRoader]

There was a picture of our 'neigbourhood team' posted in a local shop window, but I can't remember their names. Within hours some wag had drawn moustaches on and scribbled 'police is paedophiles' (sic). It didn't last very long.

I see plenty of coppers on the beat, although I do live fairly central in Brixton. Does it really matter that I don't know them by name? It's hardly a village atmosphere where people have traditionally wanted to know their pc by name?

I met a blonde WPC called Lucy the other day and I have to say her presence in Brixton is very welcome!!

 

[detective-boy]

Nice website, not seen any of Balhams finest on the streets of Brixton Hill though.

e-mail the nice sergeant, then. Tell them what your problems are. That's what they're supposed to be for. See what happens.