The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
An open letter to any MP, council officials, police chief, civil service official:
I write with a growing sense of concern for the criminally negligent actions of the Home Office. I recently saw footage of a council meeting in Skegness where local people attempted to gain answers as to the setting up of a ‘dilution camp’ in multiple hotels in the town.
Those constituents were quite rightly concerned regarding criminality, health, safety, infrastructure and trade.
However, the overriding concern regarding safety was what struck me most, having grown up near Skegness.
I was, once upon a time, a cadet with the Lincolnshire Police Force and back then there was one policeman per 50 square miles in that area of Lincolnshire, I doubt that much has changed given years of austerity.
We have a force of approximately 1,100 officers, if we assume three shifts, that is a maximum of 366 officers on duty at any one time for the whole county.
I would ask, given the distances involved, how the police are going to be able to respond to any mass civil disorder if the immigrants decide to kick off? With the diluted nature of the illegal immigrants’ housing, any organised problems, for instance three incidents in different areas of the county, are going to leave the officers either unable to respond or significantly outnumbered! We share a situation with every other adjoining county and we cannot necessary rely upon PSU support from our adjacent counties. So I would like to know what the plan is?
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