{"id":4556,"date":"2009-06-08T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2009-06-08T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:57:17","slug":"a-new-strategy-in-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-new-strategy-in-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"A new strategy in law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police force in the UK has a new weapon to fight crime: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/lawandorder\/4410417\/Police-spend-20000-on-cardboard-officers.html\" target=\"_blank\">cardboard cut-out<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01250\/cardboard_1250756c.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"230\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police forces have spent more than \u00a320,000 on cardboard cut-outs of uniformed officers designed to confuse criminals.<\/p>\n<p>It was billed as the latest police tactic to combat crime and now the idea has taken off nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Police figures show that forces across the country have spent more than \u00a320,000 on the flat-pack PCs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It must be a considerable relief to British taxpayers to know that two dimensional replicas are on the job terrifying would-be criminals, freeing up their three dimensional counterparts to pursue the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1191607\/Police-waste-taxpayers-cash-stopping-speeding-cyclists-seaside-punishing-them.html\" target=\"_blank\">criminal hard-cases<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beach bobbies: Police officers use hand-held cameras to trap cyclists speeding along seafront<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2009\/06\/08\/article-0-05428AF2000005DC-359_468x330.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"234\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police were today accused of wasting taxpayers\u2019 cash by stopping cyclists accused of speeding.<\/p>\n<p>Officers armed with hand-held speed cameras are catching bikers who exceed the 10mph limit on Bournemouth&#8217;s promenade.<\/p>\n<p>A uniformed PC will hide behind a beach hut and, when he spots an errant cyclist, radio a council \u2018seafront ranger\u2019 waiting 200 yards down to request that they are stopped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police force in the UK has a new weapon to fight crime: the cardboard cut-out. Police forces have spent more than \u00a320,000 on cardboard cut-outs of uniformed officers designed to confuse criminals. It was billed as the latest police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-new-strategy-in-law-enforcement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}