Tories paying to move police officers from poorer areas to police their own well-off boroughs
Q. Ever been puzzled why Tory voters in well-off areas don’t seem to be overly worried by rising crime across the country because of Theresa May’s cuts to front-line policing?
A. Well maybe that’s because they’ve been paying for extra police officers to be taken away from poorer areas to police their own areas.
Here’s a tweet from the leader of extremely well-off Tory London Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames:
And here’s Davis openly boasting about how his wealthy borough has paid to move police officers from other areas to police Kingston:
To pay for extra Police – What we said and what we did
So to sum up. The government is allowing police officers and resources to be moved to well-off boroughs full of their own supporters, while leaving poorer areas to suffer rising crime, in order to protect themselves and their supporters from the effects of their cuts to…
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