Crime will rise. Will Police be recruiting ??

bo_drinker

Crime is going to rocket, it's bound to. Will police be recruiting ???

nearlyrich

bo_drinker wrote: »

Crime is going to rocket, it's bound to. Will police be recruiting ???

Police forces recruit on an ongoing basis, not always all the time in every area but if you are interested in joining it's worth keeping an eye on the website of the force you are interested in.

baby_boomer

If they went round singly on bikes, rather than on foot in twos, they could cover far more ground without having to recruit anyone.

lana22

baby_boomer wrote: »

If they went round singly on bikes, rather than on foot in twos, they could cover far more ground without having to recruit anyone.

They do go round on bikes in a lot of areas, it's a really good idea, especially to cover parks and university campuses and the like.
Where my partner works they do do foot patrol, but they don't tend to do it alone as it's such a rough area a single bobby on foot wouldn't be much good. However round there the car is king and so patrolling in cars is by far the most important thing to be able to cover long distances very quickly, pull over wanted cars etc.

Like the previous poster said the police do recruit on a regular basis, however competition is very high for places.

bo_drinker

nearlyrich wrote: »

Police forces recruit on an ongoing basis, not always all the time in every area but if you are interested in joining it's worth keeping an eye on the website of the force you are interested in.

I could do a job in drugs squad or something interesting. I wouldn't want a uniform. I suppose they work their way from uniform. Plain clothes maybe. Some folk love the uniform thing, it doesn't interest me.

PasturesNew

It's all about where you live though. Where I used to live I used to keep an eye out for civilian jobs, but there wasn't even a full-time station for 20 miles and the only jobs they seemed to have were for PCSO's ... £16k to walk about in a badly fitting itchy uniform, outdoors. I wanted some cushy indoor stuff.

I don't do: physical, outdoor work in the cold ... potentially running into baddies.

lana22

bo_drinker wrote: »

I could do a job in drugs squad or something interesting. I wouldn't want a uniform. I suppose they work their way from uniform. Plain clothes maybe. Some folk love the uniform thing, it doesn't interest me.

It doesn't really work like it does on TV!
Everyone starts on response, (in uniform), then some people specialise in whichever area they want to eg. dogs, traffic, CID, firearms, OSU, surveillance etc.
Some of these are uniformed, some aren't. It's not like promotion = plain clothes like they imply on The Bill.
My partner wants to do firearms, and so will be pretty much "uniform" most of the time, but he won't be "on the beat" so to speak. At the moment he does a role which targets drug crime in his area. He needs to be in uniform some days, and other days needs to be plain clothed.
I don't think it's really about loving the uniform, the uniform is just another tool in the trade.

whathavewedone

Or maybe they'll recruit less?

Rough areas that I've lived in:

Moss Side Manchester - early 90s - never saw a copper although they must have turned up when I wasn't looking to cordon off all the roads every other day after yet another shooting

Brixton - never actually saw them pounding the streets although I was once handed a leaflet about litter by a CPO standing next to about 7 drug dealers openly selling their wares right next to him. You don't see traffic wardens there either which is why it takes about 27 years to drive through the high street

Plaistow - lived right next to a cop shop but can't say I ever saw them walking around. Did see the odd few CPOs though. Why is it okay for those poor b uggers to risk life and limb?

Now I live in Kent in an area of low crime and from time to time I have spotted the odd copper or two. In fact around this time last year I even saw two of them chase someone and catch them.

olly300

whathavewedone wrote: »

Or maybe they'll recruit less?

Rough areas that I've lived in:

Moss Side Manchester - early 90s - never saw a copper although they must have turned up when I wasn't looking to cordon off all the roads every other day after yet another shooting

I saw coppers. Then I use to go to the Man City games.

The only other time I saw them was driving through the area in cars.

whathavewedone wrote: »

Brixton - never actually saw them pounding the streets although I was once handed a leaflet about litter by a CPO standing next to about 7 drug dealers openly selling their wares right next to him. You don't see traffic wardens there either which is why it takes about 27 years to drive through the high street

Before they put the many CCTV cameras outside Brixton tube station they would often be some standing outside it and you would very very randomly see a couple strolling down the market.

whathavewedone wrote: »

Plaistow - lived right next to a cop shop but can't say I ever saw them walking around. Did see the odd few CPOs though. Why is it okay for those poor b uggers to risk life and limb?

Never lived there so can't comment.

whathavewedone wrote: »

Now I live in Kent in an area of low crime and from time to time I have spotted the odd copper or two. In fact around this time last year I even saw two of them chase someone and catch them.

Never lived there so can't comment.

lana22

whathavewedone wrote: »

Now I live in Kent in an area of low crime and from time to time I have spotted the odd copper or two. In fact around this time last year I even saw two of them chase someone and catch them.

Firstly the police often chase and catch people on foot.

Secondly, the reason you don't get police officers in rough areas walking the beat is because they are busy doing other things. In the little rural town where my parents live, there are 2 police officers who just walk up and down the high street. Not much ever happens, and if it does those officers have to call for back up from the big town nearby.
Where my partner works they have lots and lots of officers for a similar size area to my parent's town, rather than just 2. But they are constantly being called out to incidents, doing operations etc. They have made "neighbourhood teams" recently, but in the roughest areas these are used to target car crime or other locally important crime rather than just being a visible figure on the street.

bo_drinker

lana22 wrote: »

It doesn't really work like it does on TV!
Everyone starts on response, (in uniform), then some people specialise in whichever area they want to eg. dogs, traffic, CID, firearms, OSU, surveillance etc.
Some of these are uniformed, some aren't. It's not like promotion = plain clothes like they imply on The Bill.
My partner wants to do firearms, and so will be pretty much "uniform" most of the time, but he won't be "on the beat" so to speak. At the moment he does a role which targets drug crime in his area. He needs to be in uniform some days, and other days needs to be plain clothed.
I don't think it's really about loving the uniform, the uniform is just another tool in the trade.

No I realise that, but we all know that there are those that do. I lived next door to one until recently, he loved all the kit with the belts and the radios. You know the type if he hadn't made it into the force he would have been a security guard or traffic warden. They make me laugh. :rotfl: