Police chief rails against influx of 'criminal immigrants'

by liamssoft | September 19, 2007 at 03:54 am

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Police forces across the country are to cut the number of officers because of a government squeeze on funding. The Cambridgeshire Police chief is echoing the publics disproval at current police funding and It would appear that most of the UK forces feel the same way. Cambridgeshire is currently served by 187 officers per 100,000 population compared to the national average of 266.

A police chief has said that her force is struggling to cope with the feuds and criminal behaviour that is imported into the UK by immigrants.

Chief Constable Julie Spence, of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, UK, Police, said that she needed more money from the Government to deal with the problem that included immigrants thinking they could commit violent crimes they would usually get away with in their homeland.

“We’ve been short-changed for a number of years, losing money as the population continues to grow,” she said. "The profile of the county has changed dramatically and this simply isn’t taken into account when Government allocates funding.

“We now deal with people from many different countries, speaking more than 90 different languages. While the economic benefits of growth are clear we need to maintain the basic public services infrastructure which means increasing the number of officers we have.” Read the full report

Liam Byrne, Home Office Minister, welcomed Ms Spence’s outburst: “It’s because we want to hear voices like Julie Spence’s that I set up the Migration Impacts Forum, so public services can help shape our tough points system which is introduced in around 150 days time.”