many claim when they have called police, they don t always respond. i understand that there probably are bigger crimes happening elsewhere and the met is stretched, etc. however, yeah, you would like to have some sort of a response, have somebody held accountable. it s why the business improvement district here, representing around 400 firms, decided to pay for private patrols. before the pandemic, you had regular policemen who were always the same people you know, you d spot them and they were regularly around the area. post pandemic, they literally disappeared overnight. there s a general awareness now that the police don t exist in the public domain in the resources that they used to. i think there s also an awareness that the police are very much tied up with increasing bureaucracy. the met police says it s not a new development for businesses to employ private security firms and that it works closely with them. across london, shoplifting has risen
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to help tackle the problem. i understand that there are probably bigger crimes happening elsewhere and the met is stretched, etc. however, you would like to have some sort of a response to have somebody held accountable for the loss that you ve had. the met says its not a new development for businesses to employ private security firms and it works closely with them. hundreds of firefighers in london are to be screened for cancer as part of a national health monitoring project. recently evidence has shown cancer among uk firefighters in their late 30s is over 300% higher than in the general population of the same age. the testing will look to identify evidence linking occupational cancers with exposure to toxic fire chemicals. homeless charities have written to the prime minister raising concerns about his target to end rough sleeping in england by 2024. the government s ending rough sleeping for good strategy set a target to end rough sleeping by the end of this parliament.
private security firms because, they say, the met response to incidents isn t good enough. the firms are mostly there to act as a deterrent but they can also make a citizens arrest if necessary. around 400 shops in claphamjunction?are paying for specials patrols to tackle the problem. i understand that there are probably bigger crimes happening elsewhere and the met is stretched, etc. however, you would like to have some sort of a response to have somebody held accountable for the loss that you ve had. the met says its not a new development for businesses to employ private security firms and it works closely with them. hundreds of firefighers in london are to be screened for cancer as part of a national health monitoring project. recently evidence has shown that cancer among uk firefighters in their late 30s is over 300% higher than in the general population of the same age range. the testing will look to identify evidence linking occupational cancers with exposure to toxic fire chem