Comments on: Marvellous Plan!

By: Kay Tie

Kay Tie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:08:31 +0000

“Does it represent some deluxe mobile phone contract for every officer in the land.”

Since they already have a bionic radio system being rolled out which can do SMS and voicecalls, no, I don’t see that as the excuse. And you can’t tell me that email costs that much. You could probably run an entire force’s email off one Mac Leopard Server without an administrator.

Where do I bid for the £325m/year contract? I’ll do it for half that.

By: Philip Thomas

Philip Thomas — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:48:02 +0000

I quite like the idea of having a local bobbie and being able to call them. However, I agree that the cost seems absurd. Does it represent some deluxe mobile phone contract for every officer in the land.

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:45:37 +0000

IT is indeed a call centre and the number is no different from the one that we’ve had in Bath for some years; the “out of hours” service for non-emergencies is terrible (as, perhaps, it should be)

By: Umbongo

Umbongo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:44:18 +0000

“Quite why this is going to cost £325m PER YEAR is beyond me.”

Presumably there’s going to be a national OfPolCall with regional and local OfPolCalls to follow – all with diversity and outreach officers . . . . . . etc etc.

By: Kay Tie

Kay Tie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:45:59 +0000

I think the plan is to be able to contact individual officers. You know, plod2355@sclerotic.police.gov.uk.

My local force already has email addresses, and they also all have mobile phones. Quite why this is going to cost £325m PER YEAR is beyond me.

By: Judge

Judge — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:41:24 +0000

Phoning local police officers (or local stations) sounds a big improvement to the situation now where I live. And not trusting 0845 numbers, I checked on some of the others in Avon and Somerset – looks like a call centre to me:

Avonmouth police station
0845 4567000

Portishead police station
0845 4567000

Minehead police station
0845 4567000

Chipping Sodbury police station
0845 4567000

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:19:41 +0000

Email them to say what? Help, someone is breaking into my house while I’m surfing the internet?

http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com

By: Ian Bennett

Ian Bennett — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:05:24 +0000

Is it suggested anywhere that the telephone will be manned, or that e-mails will be read by more than an auto-responder?

By: MarkC

MarkC — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:37:33 +0000

Hey, it’s Guvvermint. Bloody lucky to get anything in place for less than half a billion. Or should that be “less than half an Old Bill”? Let’s see what kind of a mess they can make of a simple email protocol and application.

And how spookily appropriate that the Conservative’s Home Affairs spokesman should be called “Brokenshire”. I think that sums it up nicely.