Have Your Say on Policing in London

[Eileen]

See below an email from the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) asking the public if they will fill in an on-line short questionnaire giving their views on policing priorities. The completed questionnaire needs to be submitted by 1st December.

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Email from MPA:

Have Your Say on Policing in London

The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) is consulting on London's policing priorities for 2010/11. We are interested in your opinion. Please take part in a short questionnaire to tell us your views. To complete a questionnaire click on Questionnaires need to submitted by 1st December 2008. We look forward to hearing your views on policing in London.

Are the police focusing on areas that are important to you? The MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) policing priorities are reviewed every year. We hope the short online questionnaire will help you to tell us what you think:

* What are your top three priorities for policing in London?

* Why do you choose these priorities?

* What should the MPS be doing to tackle these priorities?

The current policing priorities can be found on the MPA website within the Policing London business plan at Please take part and have your say on policing in London. Thanks for taking part in the survey.

[PeckhamRose]

Done.

I said it wasn't up to me to decide what the priorities are, it was up to them since they know what's going on more than I do, but that they should not just concentrate on easy targets but environmental and corporate crime more, too.

And that they should tell government and politicians where to stick their targets.

But that's me.

[Eileen]

I am told by the Administrator that my post on policing priorities has been moved to the lounge, as it is not East Dulwich specific. I can see that this is strictly true, but of course policing priorities are built up by the collective local policing issues and priorities. So people commenting on policing issues in the light of East Dulwich experience is a valid thing to do. That is why it didn't occur to me that it was not East Dulwich specific. There have been a number of discussions on this forum about safety and crime and policing so there is clearly local interest in such matters.

Sorry it is not on the general page, as I assume fewer people will see it. But if you are reading this maybe you could think also abt East Dulwich local experiences of policing and see if that produces any comments that you want to make on police priorities. I am sure that the policy makers and police planners will find that useful, and can work out how the local translates to the London wide if you don't want to or can't comment on that.

[bigbadwolf]

Give them the power to treat Pikey chavs or anyone else who hassles or assaults law abiding citizens in the same way they deal with terror suspects.

Stiffer penalties for drink driving as well as driving without a license or insurance.

You get caught with an illegal firearm then you get five+ years, no less.

Give them the power they need, untie their hands from behind their backs, cut down on their paperwork that will free them from their desks and get them out onto the workplace they want to be and are paid to be, THE STREET!!!

I'm not interested in turning the country into a Police state or condone the sort of behaviour you see on programmes like the Shield but make some changes soon else we might as well just give up.

I appreciate that some people will disagree and that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion but so am I.

I strongly disagree with arming them as well, just give them better training and make the guidelines black and white for when those responsible for Met armed response need to use deadly force.