“Their salaries and pensions were enhanced while Thatcher wanted to use them as a state militia, to batter the living daylights out of the revolting peasants”
Anything with “Thatcher”, “miners strike” and “Police” really does “bring out the Branston” doesn’t it? I always thought that the reason to improve officers pay and pensions in the early 1980’s was to attract potential recruits as nobody wanted to join up. That and there was an impending huge retirement of officers looming with no replacements.
Or Thatcher was actually a soothsayer who could clearly see into the future and knew that she would need the Police well paid and recruited to batter the revolting peasants as Binners said. My old man was a miner in the 80’s, he wanted to work but as he was walking distance from the pit didn’t dare cross the picket line for fear of his house being smashed up.
But back to the OP. I too am confused and lacking any knowledge whatsoever about who the PCC is in my area and what they will do. An interesting aside, I have already been subjected to “customer satisfaction” talks that state that burglaries are treated with excessive resources as it affects a minority of the community whereas anti social behaviour affects more of the community. So with that thought process burglary is treated as a “one off” and not investigated but the bored kids outside the offy will attract massive police resources where there are very little applicable, enforceable and effective laws. Policing should be without fear or favour. I fear the PCC will change this forever and the lack of information is a deliberate act so as to not generate informative debate.