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The uk police have faced massive cuts year on year so probably don't have the budget and have lost a lot of in house knowledge
by walshemj 9y ago
The uk police have faced massive cuts year on year so probably don't have the budget and have lost a lot of in house knowledge
- Nexxxeh 9y agoAbsolutely this. Our Prime Minister (by default), Theresa May, used to be our home secretary. She seems technically illiterate. Unfortunately the base she appeals to is also relatively... Ignorant... Of tech issues and of the real world. If it won't play well in The Daily Mail, it's not a priority. According to people in the know, there aren't enough police in the community, and there aren't enough armed police, and there's not enough money going into the police force. This has all been brought into sharp focus by the recent terror attacks. Her actions read like a bad conspiracy theory.
- dx034 9y agoEven if you have a tech literate home secretary that won't help you much. Telling the public that police presence has to be reduced because the police needs to upgrade to Windows 10/Linux can cost you the next election. Especially in times when people are very concerned about the security situation.
- rlpb 9y agoEven more reason to say "we can't deliver X because it'll cost Y and our budget won't allow for that" rather than "we'll pretend X actually costs Y/10 and defer the inevitable problem". Then politicians in the first year will consider that you have delivered X for a fraction of its actual cost, and thus setting the entire service up for failure in the future.
- walshemj 9y agoBut virtually all MP's and all senior ones have zero idea about the blinky light boxes work.