On top of the recent four terrorist attacks, there has been an increase in knife, gun and domestic violence in England and Wales. This is a worrying trend and has to be tackled head on in order to provide safety and security to the people. The underlying cause are austerity measures imposed on the country for the last seven years by cutting the police force by 20,000 officers and reducing resources for crime prevention.
The Met recently issued figures showing a 42 per cent rise in gun crime over the past year, while knife crime was up 24 per cent. Gun crime offences in London surged by 42% in the last year, according to official statistics.
The proposal that Barnet’s borough commander Chief Supt Simon Rose was likely to become the tri-borough Commander of Brent, Harrow and Barnet if proposals go ahead that will see the 32-borough model move to larger units across the city. This is the wrong way to go about to increase police efficiency, because it is blatantly cost cutting exercise and will be opposed by the residents of Harrow. The Harrow borough commander Chief Supt Simon Ovens, has made Harrow the safest borough of London and to remove him at this stage would be undermining the good work done by him. This concept of tri-borough Commander is flawed and need to be shelved. The first and foremost duty of the State is to provide safety and security to its people and not to put it a risk when terrorism. violent crime. knife crime and gun crime are on the increase.
Baldev Sharma
Rayners Lane, Harrow
