The utility cyclist wrote:The thing that gets my goat is that Hants police have other far more important matters to use their time and efforts on.
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MikeF wrote: ... If this was genuine a few questions regarding the cost of this mis information would not be amiss eg printing costs, time, as well as who actually did supply it. ....
Obviously, I don't know anything about this specific case, but part of the general explanation is this:-
Whenever there are surveys into what offences people want their local police to deal with, there's a clear difference between what they regard as
serious, typically murder and so on, and what's
important to them typically dog fouling, pavement cycling, dog fouling, cycling without lights, dog fouling, other people's noisy parties, dog fouling, other people parking on the pavement, dog fouling, kids dirt tracking on old mopeds, dog fouling etc. They are not saying that crimes like murder are not serious, just that they don't happen up their street. It's a form of NYMBYism if you like. A lot of it is dreaming of a return to the fantasy era of Dixon of Dock Green. For a while it was often called "community policing" until, in some areas at least "community" became synonymous with "Asian." I think it's now more generally known as "Neighbourhood policing." One practical point is that it's extremely difficult to provide this when there are emergencies to deal with. The Home Office seem certain that it's more the person on patrol in uniform than their powers or training and step in the PCSO. Now, for long enough, if people wanted the police they rang 999 rather than some possibly hard to remember local number and part of the plan is that 101 deals with the less urgent stuff and passes it on, as appropriate to the appropriate neighbourhood team. They can't hope to deal with it all so somebody produces a leaflet like this one for distribution to "partners" "stakeholders" etc.
There's been an assumption in several posts that because it's got the police badge on, it must have been somehow approved higher up. The wonders of modern IT mean anybody can produce nice-looking fliers: it's the content that needs savvy. Gone are the days when nobody dare say a word for fear of being quoted as "a police spokesman." It's now OK to tweet on twitter and it exposes some twits.
Finally, the production of a leaflet like this is often an end in itself and not the advance notification of some sort of crackdown.
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PS Anybody who wants to know what their own neighbourhood police are concentrating on will find details on their own force website.
That edition was quickly withdrawn but for long enough I kept a copy as insurance, so to speak. 
is likely to go on about what's been overlooked.
