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November 16, 2004
Community Policing in the UK
The Guardian Tuesday November 16, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1352074,00.html
David Blunkett wants policing to return to the days of Dixon of Dock Green - but with mobile phones. In St Helens, this kind of law enforcement is already in place. Is a charity car wash, though, the sort of duty the home secretary had in mind? Stephen Moss goes on the beat with some of the area's community support officers
[...] Home secretary David Blunkett last week announced proposals for a new style of policing - less distant, more visible, community based. The initiative was instantly christened "Dixon of Dock Green with a mobile": old-fashioned attitudes; new-fangled technology. In St Helens, on Merseyside, they like to feel they already have it: neighbourhood policing was introduced across the region in 2001 by the former chief constable Norman Bettinson, and over the past year two districts in St Helens - the town centre and the residential area of West Park - have been part of a national pilot to test so-called "reassurance policing", the basis for the scheme that Blunkett intends to roll out nationally.
Posted by Emma at November 16, 2004 09:43 AM
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