Police have become more and more reliant on cash from your council tax.
For example, Leicestershire Police says it plans to hire 107 police officers and create a digital policing team to tackle high-tech crime. . By last December there were 44,000 fewer officers, staff and community support officers than in 2010. But Labour's Shadow Policing and Crime Minister Louise Haigh says local taxpayers are"being forced to pay the price for reckless Tory cuts to local police forces" and that it will create a postcode lottery where some areas are hit harder by austerity than others.Shadow policing and crime minister Louise Haigh has criticised the increase in tax
The police are just mugging the British people off why should they work when they can rip off the English lol
To investigate people being offended on twitter.
That's not the question, the question is, why isn't my yearly allowance rising as quickly as the tax is going up... it seems people are meant to survive on the same money they had 10 years ago when everything around them is getting more expensive.
Because then you have less money to buy beer and savage the neighbourhood
Gotta pay for those twitter officers
Maybe because the police are under funded, under staffed, need more of everything?
Not bothered about paying extra for policing what pisses me off is being forced to pay for a 'Metro Mayor' I never asked for in a 'City Region' I was never asked if I wished my town to become a part of.
When they don't do there job
Because the government cut backs have ripped the service to shreds and they refuse to give anymore so instead allow increases in local tax to cover for the lost revenue
Funding for the police should be coming from central government.All of it.That's it's not is merely as a result of more smoke and mirrors economics from PhilipHammondUK who wants to shift the burden of taxation to local authorities so he can claim the Tories are a low tax party
Because our Tory government are starving the police of manpower and resources.
Is this to pay for the new ‘thought police’. I don’t mind paying more if it’s used for real crime & not outlawing a difference of opinion.
More to the point! WHY AM I PAYING A TV LICENCE JUST TO FUND THE GOVERNMENT BIASED PROPANGANDA MACHINE THE BRUSSELLS BROADCASTING COMPANY?
It's because you didn't want to pay your community collection
BBCPolitics It's costly harassing people for using mean words on Twitter, y'know
Paying who? U never see them where I live- it's a joke..
If that’s the case we should all get a police officer manning our front doors once a month!
I am all for the putting extra officers on the streets. However when the cuts were made to the police force, it didn’t reduce my council tax then DacorumBC ... I wonder where that money went?
Pay them so much for doing nothing.
you people on the same planet?! look around. you want protection from all the idiots walking our streets... vests, extremists, nationalists? get your wallet's out and welcome to reality. industrial warfare at it's slim-e-est.
BBCPolitics Because they have hurty words to police these days. Mind how you go.
BBCPolitics Because central Conservatives government made massive cuts to the police budget which has lead to a huge increase in serious crime. Now council's left trying to refund the police and being criticised for it. If gave the full truth people would already know.
Probably for the million pound new police building in Exeter! FixtheOldone
BBCPolitics Because they keep investigating mean tweets and misuse of gender pro nouns! We don’t have a problem with police numbers!! 🖕
The McCann's need more?
unfortunately Theresa May put the police in this situation and they really do need the money.
Why indeed. Because the are bogged down investigating hurtful tweets.
Because The Government has cut central support Grant's to deflect criticism from them to your local councils
The police commissioner now has the authority to increase the tax as well as the local council.
BBCPolitics I’m sorry but whilst they waste money on Microsoft products when there are free alternatives it’s hard to say they need more money
Come on guys we need to pay more to keep MP's/MSP's and all the councillors going. Look up your MP and see exactly what they are costing us, not only in wages but their expenses.
BBCPolitics Coz the government don't want to.
Investigation of Twitter hate crimes .
Its so they can police mean tweets and misgendering!
Need to cover the cost of there takeaways as normally if you need a copper that's where you'll find one
So they can spend more resources on THOUGHTCRIME. They are watching what you think.
BBCPolitics Shift from government funding to local (us) funding
Because crime has increased greatly...in line with immigrants.
BBCPolitics Because we have a failure for mayor of london to begin with
They're expanding their Twitter Hate Crime Unit.
BBCPolitics So that more of them can spy on your twitter posts!
Because the govt cut the councils budgets by 50% since 2010 - duh 🙄
Oh it’s time to have a pop at the police again.... until the next terror attack
Why am I paying the BBC so much?
To pay for the Crime Commisioner hangers on Perhaps
Because of cuts to policing by the incompetent fool theresa_may
BBCPolitics Well at least Dick Turpin wore a mask
Why am I paying £1506 for band C and Westminster it’s only £670.09 🤔
BBCPolitics Stab vests.
Questioning the amount you have to pay for the police is the latest hate crime. They just hate that being asked that.
I've got no problems paying the police more. My problem is our town council has an increase of 54% and for the life of me I don't know what they do.
Because the government won’t
It’s quite simple, millions of barbaric immigrants from third-world African and Arabic countries are let into our country by the government, spreading poverty, crimes and higher taxes!!
BBCPolitics Because the tories have decimated there budget over the last few years and we are paying for it now
What police your lucky to see one
They need new cars to sit and hide in,
Absolutely ridiculous. Have public sector worker’s salaries increased by this much each year since austerity? No! It’s been Pay freezes or job losses! It’s almost like having a 2nd mortgage now.
A disgrace.
police have too protect snowflakes 24/7
Because they need to pay the Internet bill
Why do we pay so much for the BBC to lie to us in News programs interspersed with repeats of Flog It and Pointless.
Just another instance of tory cuts. Electing a tory gets £100billion HS2, but nobody answering the 999 call when you are about to be stabbed.
It's to investigate fucking tweets.
Cool. Are they going to open some police stations?
Because 'thought crime' is a thing in 2019 and almost everyone is guilty of it in some way.
Because parents can't control their knife wielding kids.
The laziest service in the country. If I could avoid paying them anything I would . A disgrace to their history - the present lot are
😂😂😂😂😂😂usually we pay for nothing in every aspect in this country just look at our public services dated bad management but again local councils use our money to pay those corrupt councilors fat cheques and still we vote for them 😂😂😂😂😂
In Birmingham they obviously needed the money to pay barristers to fight the Birmingham Pub Bombings families efforts for a full inquest into their relative's deaths & now they need it to challenge witnesses recall of the events of that night
Because the government decided not to basically
To buy all the new dictonarys so they can find out the hurty words.
A hidden tax by the back door. They should have increased income tax but that would annoy the public. So they achieve funding whilst reducing central government funding. Listen MAY, the public are not stupid! we are annoyed and frustrated with You!
I agree why are we paying for services we don’t receive everyday people are selling drugs on my road the police won’t do anything about it
They've got hurty words to find on the Internet.
DarrenMcleod007 Investigating child abuse at the BBC
To arrest people for calling a trans person He apparently
So they don't come round and smash your windows.
Pretty obvious ,I’d have thought with all the knife attacks going on recently, shouldn’t take a brain-surgeon’s intellence to work out why! I would hope it’s a step in the right direction than somet to sneer &complain about, so long as it DOES help keep everyone safe!
Well they have to investigate more “hate crimes” now, or really important things like using the “wrong” pronoun when describing someone who is pretending to be a different gender than they really are.
Me and my wife are both in our 70s living in a house in scotland and this year it is going to be £250 per month!
I guess cyber-stalking innocent people on the Internet isn't cheap.
Hey I have a friend in Great Britain and he was complaining last week about his council tax. I guess it cost a lot to get out of the European Union
Bloody rip off
Council taxes are increasing as the public sector is bloated. Too many public sector workers being paid too much with over inflated pensions.
You’re not paying more to the police you’re contributing more towards your local police because the govt is living in cloud cuckoo land
Because millionaires need that 5% tax break the Tories gave them.
The police are not worth a penny! They don't serve the public. They are complicit in covering up murders commited by sadist doctors/nurses in NHS death hospitals, they help cover up pedos, arrest & beat innocent people, but hardly catch the crooks,prevent you from speaking out.
So they can arrest people for saying mean things
The government are great at giving police extra funding and them making us pay for it. I'd be happy giving money to someone, if I get it straight back from someone else. The way the government put this things across in parliament, you'd think it was coming out of their pockets
Because the country has no money as its economy slowly fives into the abyss which always meant that ordinary working people would have to pay more. If our education system was better, most would understand this and would be better equipped to make decisions based on fact.
The government didn’t cut it down when they took 85%of police off the streets
It's the TwitterPolice precept.
Because they have agendas to carry out ?
I'm currently on Universal Credit. I recieve £190.00 a month. Received my new council bill last week and my local council are excepting a payment of £93.00 a month! So they must not expect me to eat, have no electricity or gas. Absolute joke!
Because goverment have cut income tax and how much they pay to Police from central Taxation and placed the burden on Council Tax instead. This is to claim they are the party of low Tax but all they have done is shift the burden. Shameful
Not to be able to get immediate response to your urgent call...😊
Yeah single person paying way over £1200 is a joke....when I can go the whole year with out the public services....paying way over 3/4 of my monthly bills on rent/council tax/water/electric/gas .....no wonder young people like myself are suicidal and have nothing to live for
Why? Because the left complained about the poll tax which would have resulted in lower payments by making everybody pay and not just the house.
To fund the new 'Thought Police Action Squads', the rapid response 'Missgendering division' & the 'Heckling MP's Dog services' along with the twts sat on their arses monitoring social media for politically incorrect tweets! You wonder why Knife Crime is on the increase!!!!!!
While they’re at it, I think they should allocate a percentage of our tax to the NHS by law and lock it so no government can touch it.
Here’s the real reason.
Gotta get funding for tackling all these mean people.
These aren't just coppers they're celebrities now, followed 24/7 by Dave film crews
I'm more concerned about why I am paying more council tax for less public services?
As your nation becomes more multicultural you will have increasing levels of crime. Multicultural societies are low trust societies & require a near police state to keep the peace. enjoy!
Well it is not easy scouring the internet to pull people in and caution them for identifying fellow humans as he or she. You have totally lost the plot in the UK. Sadly Australia is not far behind you.
Well, they do have to arrest people over tweets
Police Pie Pay now Greggs is moving back to France
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