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Local beat police officers - Liphook Carper (17th Jan 2024 - 18:40:36) When was the last time anyone in Liphook has seen a beat Bobby?? I've seen the odd copper using his laser gun at the bottom of Tower Rd,for speeders.. We have lived here for 11yrs+ & never seen one has anyone else??

Re: Local beat police officers - Polly (17th Jan 2024 - 22:50:52) Please see this local link for details of our local ‘Bobby’. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary launches local bobby scheme bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-68004807

Re: Local beat police officers - AF (17th Jan 2024 - 23:10:00) I see police officers 14/15 times per month. But then i do work in a police station so it's not that surprising. P.S - I'm not a police officer.

Re: Local beat police officers - Sam (20th Jan 2024 - 12:01:23) Do you want more police? If so 1. put your hand into your pocket and pay the tax’s required to support it 2. Vote for a government that is committed to providing more police, and hold them to account. It’s not the police’s fault they aren’t enough of them

Re: Local beat police officers - Re (20th Jan 2024 - 13:59:22) Yes Sam quite right people keep wanting lower taxes they badger the government then moan about services. The only problem is if you get a government that spends to much then we all suffer as the last labour government did the slimy Blair left poor old Brown right in it. So if we stop telling this government to lower taxes and knuckle down and work perhaps longer hours we could all benefit.

Re: Local beat police officers - Fact (20th Jan 2024 - 21:04:52) The UK tax burden is currently at its highest since World War Two. The issue is where that money is being wasted by those who have in charge for 14 years. We have had years of infrastructure being ideologically cut to the bone. Our strained services have reached breaking point and now interest rates have shot up making borrowing even more expensive. It’s a double whammy brought to you by our government. Local governments and councils will be feeling the pain for many years to come as a result. You do need to consider Covid and the war in Ukraine as well, as causes for current burden. Same throughout the World.

Re: Local beat police officers - R (14th Feb 2024 - 14:35:18) Is it just me that’s bored of hearing the blame being Covid/Ukraine? Weren’t the Tories in power 10 years previous to that?

Re: Local beat police officers - Joeb (14th Feb 2024 - 16:10:16) I think you should have a look at the report gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2023/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2023 Funding for police has gone up nearly 50% since 2016 and is at the highest funding we have ever had. All I am saying its not a funding problem. I think we would start asking the police and other public services what the real issues are,. Discuss !

Re: Local beat police officers - Grape (14th Feb 2024 - 16:32:22) Sounds so good, our bobby in Liphook. The money (such as salary and other) will have to come from somewhere, take the funds away from what / where precisely? The old days when we used to have local police visible on the streets were very different indeed. Public personal responsibility and respect to officials in authority are now in all-times-low (justified or otherwise). Examples of what the old days bobbies never had to worry about when confronting delinquents are alleged: mental health, hate crime, social media, crowded prisons, and so on. Legal protection to convicts and sentence leniency had shot up whilst police power of enforcement had dropped sharply. Sentencing and punishment have lost their teeth - bobby on the beat or otherwise. Don't get me wrong, I am in favour of a bobby in Liphook, but the questions above will need answering at some point.

Re: Local beat police officers - PR (14th Feb 2024 - 17:02:49) Joeb Good point, Regrettably I think the police are more interested in LGBT issues, Hate Crime and anti social spitting than crime in rural areas ~ When I was a victim of vehicle crime, and used subsequent ATM theft, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex Police could not give a damn. Troll on .....

Re: Local beat police officers - Julie Briggs (16th Feb 2024 - 18:09:13) Last time I saw a beat bobby in liphook was about 10 years ago, he came to my house to tell my daughter off for leaving a Costa coffee cup on the road by her parked car, it wasn't hers but as it was by her car a nosey neighbour assumed she dropped it and called the police, I don't know what I found funnier, the fact some Karen called the police over a coffee cup or that they actually came to our house to tell her off. But that was the last time I saw a beat bobby 🤔

Re: Local beat police officers - Richard (16th Feb 2024 - 19:44:57) We should set up our own community patrol like in the US. There’s a right drug dealing little tool who seems to like revving his rubbish little car through the village every evening who needs sorting first!

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