Policing issues in Hartlepool - BBC national news.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

As the custody suite is formally confirmed closed, the BBC national news carried this horrifying report on policing in Hartlepool.
Available at 18.16 on the film.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/10318089/bbc-news-channel?fbclid=IwAR3y8Jc-YQ_PF9tSrWgCzfChDoe0WX1LIevhvGJKwvmrMT3tZeEmncezRMU

[kevplumb]

wonderful and when you get arrested  and they won't pursue it how do you get home

[Grumblstiltskin]

"Hartlepool, one of the poorest places in England" :-(

[rabbit]

I guess this news item would have had to be approved by Cleveland Police before transmission. Shows again that public services are drifting away from areas such as Hartlepool.
Clearly a National problem  and probably worse elsewhere but not pleasant to see Hartlepool portrayed in this way.

[Land Phil]

I guess this news item would have had to be approved by Cleveland Police before transmission. Shows again that public services are drifting away from areas such as Hartlepool.
Clearly a National problem  and probably worse elsewhere but not pleasant to see Hartlepool portrayed in this way.

Worse elsewhere.
Nowhere else tops the worse charts like Hartlepool

[Johnny Bongo]

Do you ever wonder why there's lots of Police cars and vans outside the station, all hours of the day?  Because there's no police to drive them!  I was told by a serving police officer that at night, in Hartlepool, there's only four officers on duty!  God help us if there's a major incident. 

[mk1]

I was told by a serving police officer that at night, in Hartlepool, there's only four officers on duty! 

The film says 10.

[rabbit]

There are more Hartlepool episodes on the BBC news in the future.
What hot topics will feature and who will be appearing in them?

[Inspector Knacker]

No custody suite for a town of this size? No courts anymore, everything being centralised in central Teesside and they call it offering a better service.
If police are travelling through to Middlesbrough to custody every time, that's them out of town for at least a couple of hours?
Meanwhile, our local politicians stand by watching the very structures and fabric of our town being flushed down the toilet in mute acceptance, yet get aroused and excited over tongs like carpets.
Not so much politicians as frustrated interior designers with a delusional belief in their own abilities.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Here's a link to today's BBC News web site showing the film & article in full. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-46261480/hartlepool-the-town-where-police-don-t-come-out

[Inspector Knacker]

Checked the police manning levels for England and Wales and before 2005 the figures were the same as they are now. They rose under Blair but stared to fall again. So if the figures now are the same as in the 80's and 90's what's changed?

[Land Phil]

Checked the police manning levels for England and Wales and before 2005 the figures were the same as they are now. They rose under Blair but stared to fall again. So if the figures now are the same as in the 80's and 90's what's changed?

The policing levels are back to the levels we last had riots on the streets ?

[kevplumb]

Checked the police manning levels for England and Wales and before 2005 the figures were the same as they are now. They rose under Blair but stared to fall again. So if the figures now are the same as in the 80's and 90's what's changed?

all the Hartlepool lot are over the water

[Truthache]

Official response to the BBC news item from Barry Coppinger can be found here
https://www.cleveland.pcc.police.uk/News-and-Events/News-Archive/2018/PCC-renews-call-for-fairer-police-funding.aspx

[Land Phil]

Official response to the BBC news item from Barry Coppinger can be found here
https://www.cleveland.pcc.police.uk/News-and-Events/News-Archive/2018/PCC-renews-call-for-fairer-police-funding.aspx

He gives the same limp type of justification that lost us our A&E while looking after his own handsome salary.

Convenient lack of mention of the millions lost because of misconduct too.