Mr Hyde wrote:
But running the police as a private profit making company opens up all sorts of possible problems- You're assuming that it'd make policing better and have more funding but where does this funding come from- still the taxpayer?
I said i agree to it if i pay less tax,i would of thought if this sort of thing was to happen it would be how it is with private healthcare.We pay to use the service rather than paying for it through tax or Ni so i said if we were to pay less in them areas i would be happy to pay.I know it's an assumption that policing would become better but thats just it could it get any worse?Policing in my area is a joke,crime rates are soaring,robberies on the up,burglaries on the up.Even down to hood rats roaming the streets damaging cars and just generally being tnucs,surely this is something simple to police right?
I got burgled recently,now i will be honest you know your never going to get your shit back and they are unlikely to catch the culprit but i was given probably 4 names within a matter of weeks of people who are known to burgle houses.My point is if these people are known and are still committing crimes then why the fuck are they not being dealt with and are still free to do whatever they want.
Or perhaps they'd have lower wages or have costs cut, and be more concerned with making company profit than improved Policing.
Again my point is if they were to privatise then hopefully they would receive more funding,i mean the basic constable wage is what 26-30k a year.I have lads at my workplace who could earn 23k a year for packing a product and in that role all you have to be is a robot.
I know with private company's it is all about profit but surely they would make a killing on fine's and stuff just like the government do.Like the big thing over the speed camera's a few years back,it was obviously a money making venture hence why so many went up so quick.I know of 3 in my area that haven't worked for almost a year(maybe more)due to the cameras costing a lot to maintain.
In the end as long as there are more police and policing was to improve i would be all for it and willing to pay.
Perhaps they'd only enforce things that are good for their business. Are they getting paid cash for the amount of arrests they make? Would they have loyalty to their own company making them above the law?
See i think your points are all valid and it would need so much debate before anything happened.In the end there is corruption in every walk of life and no company is apparently above any law but who knows.
Maybe i'm just looking at it through rose tinted glasses.As long as privatising emergency services benefited everyone i am all for it is all i'm saying.
