Boobies on the beat ...

We had a brief dig at Boston police in Friday's "Week Ending," and still there never seems to be a shortage of opportunity.
Now, they want more people to sign up as special constables for the borough, adding even more to the army of invisible uniforms that we never see around the town.
All these people, we are told, serve with PRIDE - a force acronym for Professionalism Respect Integrity Dedication Empathy.
Given their track record to date, which has seen Lincolnshire Police come top of the list of forces whom the public trust the least, and more recently top of the forces with the largest number of complaints from the public we just wonder where policing in the county is going to terribly wrong.
At the weekend, we read the case of two Lincolnshire parish councillors who are due in court today accused of criminal damage after they cut the wires of a faulty alarm system on an empty house whose ringing had kept villagers awake for months. Throughout that time, the police ignored requests to do anything about it, never attended the alarm calls, and only sprang into action eight months after the alarm was cut to arrest to elderly councillors acting in the best interests of the parishioners.
Now we hear that Lincolnshire Police are offering four "hardship" grants of up to £500 to help towards any charitable or worthwhile cause.- the money coming from the Police Property Act Fund.
We don't want charity - we want action.
On the coast, they have launched "Operation Crack-down" to ban shopkeepers from selling eggs to under-18 year-olds in the run up to Halloween in case they throw them at someone.
We don't want kids being bullied - we want action on serious anti-social crime
With an eye to the festive season, the police are inviting students to design a corporate Christmas card for use by the force this year.
We don't want the Chief Constable getting Christmas cards on the cheap - we want ojur police out on the streets and hard at work.
Nearer home we have read in the past few weeks of the passive nature of policing in Boston.
A con man who robs an old woman in Staniland Road is branded "despicable."
We don't want evaluations - we want action.
The police send photos of a dozen warrant dodgers to the local papers with a call to the public to track them down.

We don't want to to their jobs for them - we want action.
Three men try to force their way into a car driven by a young woman with her 14 month old daughter in the back - and the police advise drivers to lock their car doors ...
We don't want these people not to be able to get into our cars - we want police action to stop them from trying.
Children as young as seven are seen playing on scaffolding in Boston's High Street. A policeman is quoted as saying: "My greatest concern is that there is going to be a serious accident ...."
We don't want Mystic Meg style predictions - we want action.
The best Boston police have come up with in recent weeks is to hide tracking devices on unlocked bicycles, dump them in places where they are certain to be stolen, then turn up on the "thief's" doorstep for an easy knock-off. It used to be called entrapment.
If every police force in Britain was as idle and hopeless as ours, the country would be in a state of anarchy.

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