Red tape keeps bobbies off beat
Published Date:
13 August 2008
RED TAPE is keeping North Yorkshire police officers off frontline duties for several hours a day, new figures revealed this week.
Home Office statistics showed county cops had the worst ratio in the region last year, with officers spending less than five hours of an eight hour shift on the beat – below the national average of 64 per cent.
West Yorkshire Police had a 75 per cent street-beat rate and Humberside 66 per cent.
But North Yorkshire Police Deputy Chief Constable Adam Briggs this week defended the figure, saying his force had the joint-lowest crime rate in England and Wales.
A Home Office spokesman revealed an extra £25 million would be invested to help police cut down on paperwork.
The document comes weeks after Selby councillors hit out over the amount of town bobbies being taken off district patrols to cover York.
One town-based sergeant lost the equivalent of 90 staff shifts within a single month because of number shortages in the city.
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13 August 2008 2:25 PM
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