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This is how policing is being used as a political election campaign and it is a disgrace. Since 2010, 21,000 officers cut, 24,000 police staff cut, 600 police stations cut.
@BorisJohnson
voted for these cuts despite him talking of safer streets.
#CutsHaveConsequences
@Peston
Who cut 21,000 police officers?
Who cut 24,000 police staff?
Who closed 600 police stations?
Who cut CPS?
Who privatised the Probation Service?
Who closed our courts?
Who cut the Prison Service?
Who claimed it’s not about numbers?
#CutsHaveConsequences
#askingforafriend
British Transport Police officers outraged after being banned from putting poppy stickers on their cars - I really don’t understand how these people get to hold senior ranks.
@HackneyAbbott
It really is so disappointing that you continue to make such ill informed comments. No mention of the personal responsibility to cooperate. You carry no credibility to be Home Secretary.
So
@BorisJohnson
is talking about a General Election and Brexit on the back drop of a policing training college.
@WestYorksPolice
you have a lot of explaining to do by facilitating this. It is wrong and inappropriate politicking.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Just remind us on who cut 20,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff, closed 600 police stations, disastrously privatised probation, cut CPS, courts and prisons? You also did this despite all the warnings. What’s happening with all those illegal and criminal dinghy crossings?
@Peston
@BorisJohnson
How is it appropriate that on the first day of the so called election campaign that policing is being used as a political election tool? He and his government cut 20,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff and closed 600 police stations.
@MPSWandsworth
I’m actually ashamed of what you did on Good Friday of all days. Stop hiding behind Covid transmission, when we see large scale protests being facilitated at this very minute in London.
@BTPcareers
@BTP
Perhaps you need to reflect that in your job adverts, as it portrays a narrative that others that do not fit the criteria you have set may not bother applying?
⬇️ So a senior police officer apologises for officers correctly applying legislation / powers and this before the outcome of an IOPC referral? Can I apologise to MET police officers for having such terrible so called leaders. Time to transfer to forces / employers who value you.
Dame Cressida Dick at
@CommonsHomeAffs
says Met has apologised to athlete Bianca Williams for distress caused during police stop in Maida Vale. She says she’s asked for a review of use of handcuffs to ensure it hasn’t become default practice
@pritipatel
@Keir_Starmer
@UKLabour
But your party cut 21,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff & closed 600 police stations. You also cut CPS, Courts, Prisons and privatised Probation despite serious warnings. Crime is now out of control and the law abiding is living in fear.
#CutsHaveConsequences
@MartinSLewis
@BiancaaWills
Driving on the wrong side of the road, failing to stop and then accusing the police of racism. Take some responsibility for your behaviour.
@BorisJohnson
So what are you going to do then?
A police officer murdered, others attacked with machetes and run over in last few days.
The courts are a joke, crime is out of control and the streets are controlled by feral criminals.
Please tell us what you will personally do to sort this???
@timothy_stanley
@EssexPoliceUK
So police officers dealing with a terrorist incident explained professionally and calmly the restrictions needed. Why would you anyone want to undermine a criminal investigation? It’s a truly awful crime, but criticising public servants is also unnecessary and unhelpful.
@metpoliceuk
Hmmmm perhaps you should just get on with it then post an update? You just keep opening yourself to more ridicule and accusations of two tier policing.
So Boris is quoting the Police Caution. Politicians should be very mindful that you will be quoted back on your so called promises in a court of public opinion
@BorisJohnson
@Peston
Good riddance
@theresa_may
@10DowningStreet
You have been a total failure. You are personally responsible for the carnage on our streets. This is what happens when you repeatedly tell lies. Now just go and don’t come back.
@BorisJohnson
Another 3 knife murders in London this weekend. Pity
@theresa_may
cut 21,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff and closed 600 police stations. Did you vote for those cuts that are responsible for the violent crime epidemic? So what are you going to do????
@sajidjavid
Why is the knife crime epidemic not seeing a cross government response via COBRA? You call a critical incident for a handful of illegal immigrants crossing the Channel, yet we’ve had more children murdered on our own streets?
@theresa_may
@Vernon_Coaker
@ItsWeary
@SkyNews
If policing released faked / manipulated / misleading / partial footage, can you imagine what the outcry would be? Where’s all of the footage? Is Sky going to ask those reasonable questions of Miss Butler??????????? Let’s hope
@Keir_Starmer
commences an investigation.
What a contrast we see with self serving politicians, who remove a suspension on two MP’s so they can vote to save
@theresa_may
Meanwhile, police officers are suspended for several years until all criminal justice & conduct matters are completed
@sajidjavid
Just think about that.
@BorisJohnson
But the Conservatives cut 21,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff, closed 660 police stations. You cut CPS, Courts and Prison funding. You privatised Probation. You were repeatedly warned and accused professionals or crying wolf. You refused to provide FOI’s proving this.
@JuliaHB1
Professional protestors know exactly what they are doing. All the media attention they have created has been a successful outcome. If they can get a ministerial scalp, that will be icing on the cake. Most reasonable people are sick to the back teeth of them causing disruption.
What is evidentially clear, the UK Home Office is institutionally incompetent. Policing has been driven in to the ground, we see the legacy of appalling decision making time and time again. Be in no doubt who is responsible,
@theresa_may
has set the decision making for years.
@theresa_may
But you have cut the emergency services and the Prison Service. 22,000 police officers cut, 600 police stations closed in England and Wales. Your actions are directly responsible for the surge in violent crime.
#CutsHaveConsequences
#PolicingCrisis
@DavidDavisMP
@christopherhope
The London outrage bubble might just burst when you realise the mood of the country is somewhere else. Shouting abuse at a funeral is not a protest. Suspect you wouldn’t want someone doing the same at a memorial for a family member would you? No you’d be demanding police action.
A police officer murdered.
Police officers attacked with machetes / run over.
What are you going to do to improve officer safety & protection?
@BorisJohnson
@10DowningStreet
@patel4witham
@ukhomeoffice
? When will we see action from you? The courts are a joke. What will it take?
@WMerciaPolice
You should be ashamed at what you are doing to this business. If you are confident with what you are doing take them to court. You are causing policing legitimacy to be brought in to serious question. You are getting a proper hammering on
@talkRADIO
with
@Iromg
this morning.
@BrandonLewis
Utterly delusional. You have cut billions out of policing and criminal justice. You have been responsible for the cutting of 21,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff, the closure of 600 police stations. You own the violent crime epidemic.
#CutsHaveConsequences
#PolicingCrisis
@SkyNewsBreak
So who put the defective cladding on the building?
Throwing the Fire Service under the bus is disgusting and will not wash with reasoned people.
@theresa_may
But you’ve cut billions out of policing. 21,000 police officers and 24,000 police staff cut, 600 police stations closed by you and your government. You are directly responsible for the violent crime epidemic and the misery that brings to victims and communities. You own it.
While you bicker like children in Parliament, brave police officers are being violently attacked in Northern Ireland. It’s about time you lot stopped behaving like spoilt brats that disgrace our nations
@jeremycorbyn
@BorisJohnson
@joswinson
@IanBlackfordMP
Police landrovers have been attacked by petrol bombers in Creggan Estate in Derry. Trouble happened as bomb squad continue to examine a suspicious object found in major security alert
@UTVNews
@JuliaHB1
That’s really quite an unfair observation. She is surrounded and on her own. How would she see who threw the milkshake when it’s come from behind her? It’s the behaviour of the cretins who assault people that should be condemned.
'Walter Mitty' police chief suspended after being accused of wearing a Falklands War medal despite being 15 at the time of the conflict 'worked in a pub when he claimed he was in the Royal Navy'
So the new PM says he will start recruiting 20,000 police officers immediately. Let’s hope the 3 year degree none sense is kicked straight in to touch then and put firmly in the bin.
@BorisJohnson
@10DowningStreet
We need to see new police leadership as we have a new PM.
So Theresa May asks
@BorisJohnson
a question on death by dangerous driving and the inadequacy of punishment. If only she’d been made Home Secretary or been Prime Minister, she could have done something about it
#PMQs
@DanielJHannan
Dan, you cannot see how large the approaching crowd is or what they are armed with. The street uniformed officers have been badly let down to be in such an exposed position. You need to ask the questions of the MET Command Team.
@LBC
@ShelaghFogarty
It seems to be one rule for senior officers and another set of standards for the front line plebs. It looks a mess, detracts from the professional image and message that needed to be conveyed. It’s time to stop making excuses for the trendy snowflakes.
Wonder if this was too macho for Cressida Dick?
It’s called policing and protecting the public, aka bravery from a hero, rather than political correctness from behind a desk or while hiding in a car and driving off.
So
@sajidjavid
makes a claim to
#CPC19
that recruiting 20,000 police officers reinstates the
@Conservatives
as the party of law and order. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s delusional. 24K police staff cut, 600 police stations closed. CPS, Courts, Probation & prisons all cut
Tories are getting owned on violent crime and police cuts by
@afneil
on
#PoliticsLive
The figures quoted are truly shocking. The
@Conservatives
are the ‘party of crime and disorder’.
#KnifeCrimeEpidemic
the Tories have cut 21,000 police offficers and 24,000 police staff.
Two cops stabbed and another left with head injury after responding to brutal brawl in Islington - any outrage from our politicians or is it a bit early for them?
@HackneyAbbott
@sajidjavid
⬇️ The state of this. She cut 21,000 police officers, 24,000 police staff and closed 600 police stations. She was warned, but she accused the police of
#CryingWolf
- she is responsible for the
#KnifeCrimeEpdidemic
She has destroyed Policing, CPS, Courts, Probation & Prisons.
“I am determined to reverse the tragic increase we are seeing in violent crime. By working together at every level of government, we will tackle this issue.” – PM
@Theresa_May
chairing the first meeting of the
#SeriousViolence
Ministerial Taskforce
#KnifeFree
@HackneyAbbott
@sajidjavid
Let’s focus on the problems with children being murdered on our own streets first. Let’s leave the la la land gesture politics in the playground.
@HackneyAbbott
As you are aware, the use of
#taser
is far more intricate than a cheap headline with statistics. It’s such a shame that you repeatedly fail to provide a balanced and informed picture. It’s little wonder that confidence in you as Shadow Home Secretary is questioned.
@theresa_may
Lies and disinformation concerning policing. It’s only 1%. You have ignored the so called Independent Pay Review Body, who asked you to consolidate the 1% from 2017/18. You have failed to listen to them. So that 1% awarded last year has disappeared.
@Mike_Fabricant
Where’s the full video footage? Sadly she’s not said anything about the young black male who was murdered on Oxford Street yesterday. Just blame the police. Labour really do have some credibility problems.
@theresa_may
What about focusing on the violent crime epidemic and using the instruments of government to protect the vulnerable? You have devastated policing with your cuts. 22,000 police officers cut, over 600 police stations closed.
#CutsHaveConsequences
#PolicingCrisis
@BorisJohnson
But the leaking of lockdown easing to the media makes it now impossible for those expected to police the existing restrictions, whether that be policing or local authorities. You really do need to explain this today, ahead of the Bank Holiday. It’s a real mess.
@pritipatel
But another record day of illegal crossings yesterday? Organised criminals are running rings around you, making a fortune and laughing, meanwhile the public looks on in disbelief.
@BorisJohnson
@ukhomeoffice
it’s no good being in Greece when the chaos is on our doorstep.
So,
@sajidjavid
will be speaking to police chiefs on Wednesday to see what more can be done on the
#KnifeCrimeEpidemic
Why are you waiting until Wednesday? You call a Critical Incident for a handful of migrants crossing the Channel but wait till Wednesday for kids being murdered?
@pritipatel
You need to secure our borders, 600 illegals reportedly came across the Channel yesterday. Crime is out of control and organised criminality is making a laughing stock of this country.
@HackneyAbbott
The claims of Americanisation of policing is laughable. I think you’ve reached a new low. Policing operates in 2018, with threats, demand, technology and that is with consent and scrutiny by society. Police officers are being hurt everyday, but you appear silent on this.
@BorisJohnson
I’m sorry but that’s not really sufficient. You need to take powers to ban these protests before they even start. What are you doing to hold senior police officers to account for their decision making on withdrawal from the streets?
So another off duty police officer puts themselves in harms way & ends up being stabbed. When will
@sajidjavid
@ukhomeoffice
take responsibility? When will you start to take crime seriously? What is it going to take for you to act?
#CutsHaveConsequences
Is defunding the police still a thing this morning?
Has the stupidity and hate of recent days been put back in Pandora’s Box?
Is policing socially acceptable again for the extremists in society? 🤔
@bbcthisweek
@rorybremner
@afneil
Thank you to you and the team for the last 16 years, it’s such a shame that you will not be continuing with the most informative political programme. All the best for the future.
@BorisJohnson
Actually lost count of the numbers of young men murdered, stabbed and shot on London streets. We never hear you speak out about that being shocking, why is that?
@Mike_Fabricant
@WMPolice
It’s generally not prudent to give a running commentary on security alerts. Perhaps a little patience and understanding wouldn’t go amiss.
Our first passing out parade since lockdown. The first recruits to start their training online. Making history and making a career in policing. Congratulations our community needs you
#Devon
#Cornwall
#Plymouth
#Torbay
#Exeter