Police chiefs are too busy with woke causes to bother with catching crooks
Keystone cops
NOT bothering to go after a criminal who has stolen something with a built-in location tracker pretty much sums up modern policing.
That 99 per cent of thefts including smartphone snatches went unpunished last year is a damning indictment of the forces supposed to protect and serve us.
Chief Constables bleat about falling police numbers when they are actually rising again.
All too often a lack of cash is blamed for inaction or poor strategy.
But it’s not just about budgets.
It’s about mindsets.
Properly tackling so-called “low-level” crime DOES work.
But our force leaders are too busy with fashionable woke causes and politely escorting Just Stop Oil protesters to bother with catching crooks.
The gap between what police chiefs think is important and what the public does has never been wider.
Walking away from thefts won’t bring back trust.
Sir’s halo slips
SIR Keir Starmer’s holier-than-thou politics is increasingly looking a sham.
His attempt to paint Rishi Sunak as soft on paedophiles was as nasty as it was dishonest.
Now his grubby secret deal to poach Partygate inquisitor-in-chief Sue Gray to be his chief of staff will be properly revealed.
Cabinet Office mandarins are expected to suggest the Civil Service Code was breached.
If Sir Keir is found to have played a part in this, it won’t just be his judgment that will be called into question.
The Labour leader’s strategy of presenting himself as Mr Rules will have taken a severe battering, too.
Put sick first
HOW much longer can the Royal College of Nursing’s inept leader Pat Cullen steer her members into the darkness?
Today’s strike will be more brutal on patients than ever.
That nurses had to be persuaded to go in to look after desperately-ill children was a PR disaster.
And leaving hospitals with low levels of staff over a Bank Holiday weekend is unnecessary and dangerous.
There is a way back from this.
Accept the Government’s offer — as other unions have — and put the sick and dying first.
Barking mad
YEARS after lockdown, Britain is still in a productivity crisis caused by working from home.
Now firms are letting staff bring in their dogs to tempt them back to the office.
With so many civil servants on the WFH racket, it’s only a matter of time before the Government asks Battersea Dogs Home to move to Westminster.