ConDems must stop this attack on our Police

I am receiving quite a few emails from members of the Police Federation and their families. They concern the effects of the Comprehensive Spending Review, the Winsor Report and the Hutton Report which are seriously undermining police morale. Public service delivery is inevitably suffering and will continue to suffer as a direct result of this. The Police Federation say quite rightly that "the three issues have created ‘meltdown’ within the Police Service; such a position has not been witnessed in the UK since the mid-1970’s when we saw officers leaving the service in droves."

I am honoured to lend my support to the Federation, but deeply saddened that this ConDem govt has brought them down to this. I joined in the 1970s and the Federation is 100% correct, there were many older and experienced bobbies who were leaving and who told this young probationary constable that they had families and couldn't afford to feed them. Our communities lost hard working, competent officers for all the wrong reasons and suffered for it as a result. And so it will be today, if we are to allow this disgraceful attack on the Police service to continue.


nick