Soapbox: We need more police officers
RACHEL Jay makes a plea for better policing for illegal fox-hunting ("Police must enforce law", Open Lines, November 13).
Taking a firm stand to uphold this law requires prioritising limited resources in police manpower – sorry, "officer" power – towards an activity comparatively insignificant against other more pressing needs such as law and order on the streets, knife crime and checking up on unsafe and untaxed vehicles.
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The simple fact is we do not have enough police personnel to service every aspect of the law, and at the rate our EU masters in Brussels are churning out new laws on a daily basis we never will have enough.
In truth, we do not have sufficient people to service our society at any level, but when David Willats stood up at the last Labour Party Conference to recommend delegates to have more babies, he was roundly condemned by the Family Planning Association.
Reactions like this invariably occur when honest politicians get close to the truth – too close for comfort, that is.
Willats wouldn't have dared to say this, but the UK abortion statistics are frequently paraded as national assets, whereas they are arguably nails in the coffin of civilised behaviour.
Seven million of them in only a quarter century – an immense cultural resource vanquished to the winds of time.
What would the great Christian philanthropist George Muller, who cared for 3,000 orphaned and abandoned children at his homes on Bristol's Ashley Down, have thought about this? Who knows.
Some of them might have made good police officers.
Bernard J Seward, Bristol.
Comments
by Martin, Knowle,Bristol
Tuesday, December 09 2008, 2:04PM
“1. We need more prisons so that the police don't have to keep catching the same offenders and then see them go free so that they have to catch them again and again.
2. This world is overpopulated. We already have one and a half times the population than the worlds resources can cope with.The Earths resources are dwindling at an increasing rate. I include in those resources other animals, who will be in real danger of becoming extinct along with us thanks to our selfishness unless we make some very radical decisions. The kind of radical decisions that will make the termination of a few unwanted foetuses pale into insignificance.
As an extreme example, The population of Ethiopia, despite yet another famine there, has quadrupled in just 80 years.
China has done us all a favour with its savage birth control policies. We need to be thinking along those lines here.”