Sajid Javid is right to press for an urgent cash boost for cops as crime soars
While police officers do need more funding, it's also just as important they receive new orders to get back to basics
Lost the plod
POLICE need more funding. But just as crucially they need new orders to get back to basics.
Crime is soaring. And Home Secretary Sajid Javid is right to press for an urgent injection of cash. There can be little doubt cuts have now gone too far.
But there is a policy crisis which top cop Sara Thornton was refreshingly candid about yesterday — though it is incredible the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council needed to spell it out:
That cops should be catching violent thugs and burglars instead of wasting time on NON-crimes.
Too many senior officers, distracted by Twitter and Facebook, believe their role is to patrol our behaviour and online exchanges rather than our streets. They are in thrall to mobs of offence-seeking social media snowflakes.
Serious crimes that actually wreck lives are ignored as too time-consuming. But meanwhile years of police work ARE devoted to investigating sex abuse claims against dead men in the hope of bringing closure to victims.
That cannot be a priority, with police all but vanished from our streets and drug gangs engaged in open warfare.
Our top cops have lost the plot.
Phony Blairites
LABOUR MP Yvette Cooper has a bloody nerve berating Tories and border officials over Brexit immigration arrangements.
It is Blairites like Ms Cooper, and the uncontrolled mass immigration they unleashed on Britain, who are responsible for the Leave vote in the first place.
This deliberate Tony Blair policy was played down for fear of a public revolt.
That revolt — a clamour for national sovereignty, including control over immigration — finally came with the 2016 referendum. By which time Ms Cooper and her arrogant tribe were safely carping from the sidelines.
Labour NEVER had a grip on immigration. It didn’t want it. It surrendered it. It brainlessly saw no downside to a massive influx of newcomers. Dissent was branded bigotry and racism.
Those same MPs now have the brass neck to savage Tories tasked with the toughest national problem in 70 years. The hypocrisy and grandstanding are repugnant.
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Sun shines
CRIME victims are now routinely able to see once-secret parole reports. That is a huge victory for open justice, the nation and The Sun.
The legal case we won alongside two victims of cab rapist John Worboys in March has been a game-changer.
It has enabled 500 people so far to read for the first time the reasons behind Parole Board decisions to grant or refuse an offender their freedom.
It’s The Sun’s public interest journalism in action.