Comments on: Lambeth police to buck the trend? http://jamescousins.com/2010/09/lambeth-police-to-buck-the-trend/ An amorphous blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Simon Newman http://jamescousins.com/2010/09/lambeth-police-to-buck-the-trend/#comment-2030 Simon Newman Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:15:18 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=4274#comment-2030 To do it properly, there should be 4 times as many SNTs, so one is always on duty, and they should of course respond to crime – which they do, when on duty, if it’s crime that has immediately occurred.

I don’t think the show-up-and-not-do-anything model is much use. If they’re going to show up, they need to be prepared to investigate, eg by taking fingerprints. I was lucky, when a burglar broke into my house & I chased him off, the police took fingerprints, ID’d him, and he went to jail. That should be routine, for car break-ins too.

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