Another day and another violent robbery on the streets of Chelsea and Knightsbridge.
This latest involved a man bravely chasing three bike-driving robbers and falling and breaking a leg.
Every day gangs target residents and visitors unworried about getting caught knowing they will get a derisory sentence.
This is right on Felicity Buchan's patch. She knows the only effective deterrent to these attacks on her constituents is deterrent sentencing: in other words.....seven years served. Equally, we hear nothing from Cllr Campbell, the leader.
Her silence is telling: she has not a clue about what to do.
We need two things...
- no more police driving endlessly around in comfortable cars but walking our streets.
- minimum term sentences of seven years for this type of assault: if a weapon is involved....ten years.
To tell people they should not jewelry or watches is just a cop-out.
Yes, Dame. Telling people not to wear watches and jewellery is a cop out. Meanwhile, in the real world, perhaps it's the best advice.
ReplyDeleteIt may be the best advice but it does not address the problem
DeleteIt is deeply worrying that this broadly based criticism of the policies and behaviour of the fatally flawed Leader of RBKC, dizzy Campbell, continues unabated. There is a crescendo of protest that the Tory Councillors ignore and allow the useless woman to continue i office
ReplyDeleteRBKC council has form in refusing to take gang crime seriously . For years they kept trying to claim that there was not a problem with gangs or inter gang violence, in the Royal Borough because if one looked at the home addresses of the few people charged with street robberies in RBKC they lived elsewhere !! ( largely on the Mozart Estate ) The council refused to get involved even when Westminster , Brent & Hammersmith councils tried to coordinate their anti gang activity . So our residents continue to be mugged & robbed because RBKC ,once again thinks that cross borough cooperation has nothing to teach RBKC .
DeleteThe only time that a serious impact on crime was to be observed was when London & government took 'sector policing seriously ' - when Police officers were assigned a regular beat & commitments made to keep them in their own patch for a number of years . That way the police got to know their patch and its residents ( good & bad ) & residents could get to know their own beat officers & genuinely cultivate personal relationships . It worked & crime fell& public confidence in venturing onto the streets blossomed . But of course proper policing is expensive & despite its success the scheme was cut back & cut back & then abandoned .?( The person most to blame for this was one B Johnson - who allowed the coalition government to cut police budgets & began the sell off of police stations ) . Today the current Tory Leadership in RBKC is tryingbto fool the neevousvelectorate by campaigning to be allowed to buy the Notting Hill police station atva knockdown price and fill it with all kinds of goodies which will house the homeless , sprinkle glitter on the borough's voluntary services and solve the drug & related crime epidemic . Policing is not about buildings - it requires long term funding and the gradual rebuilding of sector policing . The world of 'Dixon of Dock Green' never existed but sector policing was the closest we ever got to it .And Johnson's destruction of it whilst London Mayor was one of the greatest of his multiple crimes against the electorate.
DeleteI totally agree with 12.46. I live in the North of the borough and have seen our local policing decimated by cuts both from Governments and Council. There are now organised gangs operating where there were none before, because the council keeps cutting the finding for the groups who tried to stop the gangs gaining a foothold. There are the feral gangs of Deliveroo/Uber scooter riders hanging out on street corners then racing everywhere and riding dangerously, breaking every traffic law as they speed to deliver your McDonalds.
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