More Police. Less paperwork and political correctness. More rehab places for addicts. Tougher sentences for career criminals. Prisoners to serve their sentences in full.
“The Conservatives have pledged to increase the number of Police nationally by 40,000 officers. Kingston has the lowest number of Police officers and PCSO’s in London. If there is nothing else that demonstrates we need a Conservative MP who will deliver then this issue is it! Interestingly the shopkeeper near me tells me the PCSO's are useless because they are not around in the evening to fend off the young people who try to illegally buy alcohol from him.
Crime is a key concern for us all. Crime has risen by 16 per cent since Labour came to office. Violent crime is up by 80%. Crime in London, especially serious crime, is rising fast and we need Police on our streets to act as a deterrent. As with much of the current Government we need to cut police bureaucracy and move police officers out of the office and onto the streets.
My Father was a Police officer and one of the reasons he took early retirement was because of the rising tide of bureaucracy and form filling he was seeing. He wanted to be out on the streets but the police service wanted him to fill out forms. He was so frustrated the only answer he had was to get out.
I also think the policy of having sentenced criminals serve tier full sentence is a sensible one. On one I speak to understand how a sentence gets passed and yet so little of it gets served.
The Liberal Democrats are soft on crime.
They do not believe in jail as a deterrent. ("I'm absolutely convinced that prison is a complete and utter waste of time." Mark Oaten Lib Dem Home Office Spokesman, November 2003)
They do not want to jail first time burglars.
They want to legalise cannabis and downgrade ecstasy.
They want rapists and paedophiles to have the write to vote from their jail cells. They would scrap the mandatory life sentence for murder.
Yet more choice for Kingston and Surbiton!
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