Maybe it was when the Police Force turned into a Police Service or perhaps when the Police, like virtually everyone else on the public payroll, started wearing hi-vis health and safety jackets but something fundamental about the Police changed.
If the Police have any roles surely catching criminals and protecting the Queen’s subjects, especially the vulnerable are top of the list. In the tragic case of Fiona Pilkington they failed – totally. It wasn’t the system that failed, it wasn’t the Council that failed (although they did have responsibilities) it was Police Officers in the local Station who failed. They failed to protect the vulnerable and they failed to arrest criminals. Whatever the regulations, whatever the targets, whatever the mountain of paperwork they had to fill out, whatever else was going on in their lives, the local Officers failed.
That a Police Officer told this poor terrified woman that if they were to attend the scene it would exacerbate/inflame the situation tells you all you need to know about the scale of the failure.
The cry for 'Bobbies on the Beat', actual physical Officers walking along the street, has echoed around the country for so long it is ridiculous. However, if this street had had a Policeman walking up and down the abuse would not have happened and Fiona Pilkington and her daughter would be alive today.
Shame on you.
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