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383 police officers made no arrests last year (From Gazette & Herald)
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383 North Yorkshire police officers made no arrests last year
10:45am Thursday 1st November 2012 in News
By Jennifer Bell, Crime reporter
ALMOST 400 police officers in North Yorkshire did not make an arrest last year.
Figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed 383 officers made no arrests between the start of April 2011 and the end of March this year.
The details provided by the force showed a further 260 officers made five or fewer arrests.
At the other end of the scale, 11 North Yorkshire Police officers made more than 100 arrests during 2011/12.
A further 735 North Yorkshire officers arrested between six and 50 people during 2011/12, with 131 having an arrest tally of between 51 and 100.
North Yorkshire Police pointed to several reasons why some officers would not have made any arrests, saying the figure of 383 included those on long-term sick leave, on secondments, career breaks, maternity leave or in specialist roles where arrests would not be their primary role.
“It must be acknowledged that senior officers and supervisors – sergeant and above – who set objectives, direct resources and monitor performance are less likely to make arrests than those officers at the rank of constable working in neighbourhoods, road policing units or as detectives,” said the force in its response to the FOI request.
“The action of arrest, if used alone, would be an extremely crude measure of the effectiveness of the police service.”
The arrest figures for North Yorkshire Police during 2010/11 have also been confirmed through the FOI response, showing that no arrests were made by 404 officers during that time, and 250 officers arrested five or fewer people.
However, 772 officers made between six and 50 arrests, 133 made between 51 and 100 arrests, and eight officers had more than 100 arrests in that time.
Comments(18)
inthesticks
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10:57am Thu 1 Nov 12
baldiebiker
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11:11am Thu 1 Nov 12
Pete the Brickie
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12:34pm Thu 1 Nov 12
sheps lad wrote:I'd agree with the force spokesperson on the ones who made no arrests, in any organisation you will get some people who don't carry out a particular task. I haven't mixed any cement and our Labourer hasn't laid any bricks but we are working for a common cause.
Over to you Pete!
A more interesting statistic over the last two years would be the number of "pre-planned operations", the cost of them and the actual number of arrests resulting from them, although I'd add even that previously dire situation is improving now they've less money to waste.
Stan2Attention
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1:24pm Thu 1 Nov 12
ShunGokuSatsu
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1:57pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Stan2Attention wrote:FOI requests run to about £50 a pop, I think.
I agree that this is a non-story. In wonder how much it cost the police (or to put it another way, us tax payers) to respond to the Freedom of Information request?
Pete: Well said. I work as an illustrator. Reporting that 400 officers didn't make any arrests like it's some sort of scandal is akin to writing a story about how the guy who does my accounting didn't draw anything last year.
TerryYork
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2:39pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Terry3
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3:05pm Thu 1 Nov 12
bob the builder
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4:06pm Thu 1 Nov 12
kwalsh
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5:34pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Even AndyD
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7:22pm Thu 1 Nov 12
expubcrawler
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8:22pm Thu 1 Nov 12
They were on their way to work as usual when - nothing happened.
Behind a bush on the side of the road, there was no severed arm, no dismembered trunk, no head in a bag - nothing, not a sausage.............
Even AndyD
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9:35pm Thu 1 Nov 12
expubcrawler wrote:You a Jane Austen fan? That is the plot of Northanger Abbey right there!
"383 North Yorkshire police officers made no arrests last year".
They were on their way to work as usual when - nothing happened.
Behind a bush on the side of the road, there was no severed arm, no dismembered trunk, no head in a bag - nothing, not a sausage.............
Gary Gilmores Eyes
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8:13am Fri 2 Nov 12
The police our heroes. God bless them and everything they do.’
What?
Like cover up for massive mistakes and incompetence at Hillsborough?
The butality and political cover ups during the miners strike?
The setting up of an innocent vunerable man like Stefan Kiszko? http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Murder_of_L
esley_Molseed
The death of Ian Tomlinson?
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Death_of_Ia
n_Tomlinson
Or the strange death of David Kelly?
The police opened a case file approx 4 hours before he was reported missing.
The crystal ball must have been very clean that day.
(The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman Baker MP)
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/David_Kelly
_(weapons_expert)
Perhaps they need 383 ‘spare’ officers to rewrite statements that have already been submitted to fit the events as they see fit?
Nothing but pawns to keep the masses damped down by their political/money puppet masters pulling the strings to keep the status quo and the masses in the dark of what really happens in this country!
twotonethomas
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1:26pm Fri 2 Nov 12
Strange then how they never turn up when sabs aren't present and the law will definitely be broken!
capt spaulding
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4:28pm Fri 2 Nov 12
So even with a possibility of an arrest ! there is no arrest.
Makes you wonder where our council tax money is spent..............l
ike on officers who would like to keep criminals out of the justice system.
You couldnt make it up.
Kevin Turvey
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1:35pm Mon 5 Nov 12
I suspect that the 12 visible (8 outside the building , 2x in armed response vehicle hidden round back, 2 in camera car on Piccadilly, plus some more in the back of the big van?) officers I can see outside the CPS in Piccadilly today for an alleged BNP/right wing demonstration (that has not turned up yet) have not made any arrests this year as well!
Kevin Turvey
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8:34am Tue 6 Nov 12
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.Police_alert_over_f
ar_right_threat_in_Y
ork/
‘Police alert over far-right threat in York
3:51pm Monday 5th November 2012 in News By Jennifer Bell, jennifer.bell@thepre
ss.co.uk
POLICE braced themselves for a protest in York city centre following a Facebook tip that an extreme right-wing group would be staging a march though the city.
Dozens of officers were stationed outside the law courts and outside Piccadilly House in York shortly before noon today after police were alerted to a possible protest against CPS by a group linked to the English National League, Chief Inspector Mark Khan, of North Yorkshire Police said.
Chief Insp Khan said the force had received intelligence that the group would be holding a protest in York as part of co-ordinated action alongside Birmingham and London.
He said whilst police had a policy not to prevent any kind of protest – officers were there to ensure any march remained peaceful to ensure the safety of local residents.
He said the intelligence suggested the “extreme right-wing” group were protesting against CPS who they believed were favouring Islamic extremists over English patriots, said Mr Khan.
No protest materialised. ‘
I was trying to work out if the reporter had got any facts correct or had actually spoken to the police officers on duty as I had or done any other research into the ‘story’ apart from a press release by the police or whilst looking on Facebook to talk to her ‘friends’ she noticed something else on there!
For the 'Journalist's' information:
1. The building in question is United House not Piccadilly House. It is actually located in Piccadilly.
2. The ‘intelligence’ was from the following website not just facebook!
thenmnetwork.wordpre
ss.com/.../protest-a
gainst-politically-c
orrupt-judiciary-and
-cps/
3 There was also an armed response vehicle parked round the back of United House and a police camera vehicle parked further up Piccadilly recording everything!
So to make the ‘reporters’ task a little easier perhaps they want to ask for the footage under the data protection act – sorry… they would have to be there to be in it to apply!
Sloppy journalism, that is not actually factual.
sheps lad says...
10:48am Thu 1 Nov 12