Agree with Rod Came's comment that Road Safety should be of more concern to Police than they are currently. Road Policing unit reductions, i believe to be a mistake as anti-social / illegal parking and moving offences occur regularly in all areas of Sussex increasing the risk of using our road network. Maybe it is time to create a dedicated British Transport Police, an extension of those who do excellent work on the Railway ? It may also have the potential to stop criminals in their movements as more regular checks would occur of vehicles.
lesley Dennett - 7 years ago
I see from the pol that anti social behaviour is a big worry,so why on earth did some jobsworth decided to demolish Peacehavens only police station/presence.This once lovely town is now becoming a no go area .The meridian centre is a hub for youth bad behaviour,vile language and bad litter problem We NEVER see Policeman .We are certainly not a priority for local police .We are getting more and more houses being built with more problems that involves and yet you seem to think every thing is ok ,ITS NOT BRING BACK THE POLICE ON THE GROUND NOW
David Shimmans - 7 years ago
Thiis office is not fit for purpose! Her annual salary is merely the tip of the iceberg when you take all the other Operating Costs associated with this Office!
Jan Weeks - 7 years ago
Modern policing (contacting and reporting to the police)
With the loss of a visible Neighbourhood Policing Team it is becoming increasingly more difficult to report anti-social behaviour locally. Trying to contact 101 to report an incident is a joke, the majority of the time you are left waiting for the call to be answered. Reporting via email to local district again leaves a lot to be desired with no acknowledgement of receipt. The police precept has been increased, we were informed, to recruit more neighbourhood officers, where are they certainly not on the streets. Intelligence on drug dealing and criminal activity has always been because of close contact with the local community.
Using council tax payers money to paint police vehicles pretty colours is not a good use of resources and does nothing to prevent crime.
its a great shame that the PCC is unaccountable for her actions, only through the ballot box every four years.
John Richardson - 7 years ago
I agree with many of the comments in the first comment posted, especially the loss of foot patrols here in rural Sussex, and the removal of 'community officers' who were worthwhile but a cheapskate alternative to paying for fully-trained police officers.
I did not find the survey very useful in many ways - a mere going through the motions really - as all the tick offers are vitally important if we are to return to the sort of society that I accounted normal in the past. And where were teenage knife crime, possibly one of the most dangerous criminal developments in recent years, or the educational function of policing, another underrated but immensely valuable service?
I suppose, (why it should be presumed 'a supposition', I don't know, unless some political forces would like it to become a supposition) the funding we give our police and the emergency services lies at the bottom of what they can achieve: where was the opportunity to record our attitude to those poor levels of funding - that which subtends every other question that you presented?
Rod Came - 7 years ago
I wonder if the results of this poll and others, will affect the direction in which Sussex Police is forced to go. Road safety always features high in any poll but the police activity in that area of enforcement is being systematically reduced.
People are dying in increasing numbers on the roads of Sussex, but what was a Division has been reduced to a mere Unit and shared with a neighbouring police force. This is no way to treat the most serious, frequent and preventable cause of trauma and death in our county.
We have lost police foot patrols in the name of efficiency so the public now have little contact with the police, now patrolling police cars are even a rare sight. Just ask yourself when you last saw a vehicle that had been stopped by a patrol car. We are now in an era of 'fire brigade policing' where officers turn up after the event rather than being proactive and preventing crime.
It is time to reduce the trend toward headline grabbing abuse and restorative justice and put more resources into road safety, an element of deliberate and accidental crime that affects all residents.
Agree with Rod Came's comment that Road Safety should be of more concern to Police than they are currently. Road Policing unit reductions, i believe to be a mistake as anti-social / illegal parking and moving offences occur regularly in all areas of Sussex increasing the risk of using our road network. Maybe it is time to create a dedicated British Transport Police, an extension of those who do excellent work on the Railway ? It may also have the potential to stop criminals in their movements as more regular checks would occur of vehicles.
I see from the pol that anti social behaviour is a big worry,so why on earth did some jobsworth decided to demolish Peacehavens only police station/presence.This once lovely town is now becoming a no go area .The meridian centre is a hub for youth bad behaviour,vile language and bad litter problem We NEVER see Policeman .We are certainly not a priority for local police .We are getting more and more houses being built with more problems that involves and yet you seem to think every thing is ok ,ITS NOT BRING BACK THE POLICE ON THE GROUND NOW
Thiis office is not fit for purpose! Her annual salary is merely the tip of the iceberg when you take all the other Operating Costs associated with this Office!
Modern policing (contacting and reporting to the police)
With the loss of a visible Neighbourhood Policing Team it is becoming increasingly more difficult to report anti-social behaviour locally. Trying to contact 101 to report an incident is a joke, the majority of the time you are left waiting for the call to be answered. Reporting via email to local district again leaves a lot to be desired with no acknowledgement of receipt. The police precept has been increased, we were informed, to recruit more neighbourhood officers, where are they certainly not on the streets. Intelligence on drug dealing and criminal activity has always been because of close contact with the local community.
Using council tax payers money to paint police vehicles pretty colours is not a good use of resources and does nothing to prevent crime.
its a great shame that the PCC is unaccountable for her actions, only through the ballot box every four years.
I agree with many of the comments in the first comment posted, especially the loss of foot patrols here in rural Sussex, and the removal of 'community officers' who were worthwhile but a cheapskate alternative to paying for fully-trained police officers.
I did not find the survey very useful in many ways - a mere going through the motions really - as all the tick offers are vitally important if we are to return to the sort of society that I accounted normal in the past. And where were teenage knife crime, possibly one of the most dangerous criminal developments in recent years, or the educational function of policing, another underrated but immensely valuable service?
I suppose, (why it should be presumed 'a supposition', I don't know, unless some political forces would like it to become a supposition) the funding we give our police and the emergency services lies at the bottom of what they can achieve: where was the opportunity to record our attitude to those poor levels of funding - that which subtends every other question that you presented?
I wonder if the results of this poll and others, will affect the direction in which Sussex Police is forced to go. Road safety always features high in any poll but the police activity in that area of enforcement is being systematically reduced.
People are dying in increasing numbers on the roads of Sussex, but what was a Division has been reduced to a mere Unit and shared with a neighbouring police force. This is no way to treat the most serious, frequent and preventable cause of trauma and death in our county.
We have lost police foot patrols in the name of efficiency so the public now have little contact with the police, now patrolling police cars are even a rare sight. Just ask yourself when you last saw a vehicle that had been stopped by a patrol car. We are now in an era of 'fire brigade policing' where officers turn up after the event rather than being proactive and preventing crime.
It is time to reduce the trend toward headline grabbing abuse and restorative justice and put more resources into road safety, an element of deliberate and accidental crime that affects all residents.