"They Only Have Themselves To Blame!" More Than Half the Public 'Do Not Trust' Police To Solve Crime

Voters are losing faith in the police after a spate of scandals and a rise in offences including shoplifting and cybercrime, polling has revealed.
A YouGov survey found a lack of confidence, with more than half of the public saying they do not trust the police to solve crimes and over a third saying they have no faith in the authorities to maintain law and order.
The Times Crime and Justice Commission, which will report next April, will take evidence from across the criminal justice system and draw up a radical blueprint for far-reaching reform.
TalkTV's Vanessa Veltz is joined by former Met police detective Peter Bleskley, who argues modern policing has 'turned its back' on the general public.
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[@michaelillingworth6433]

Vote Reform

[@blackislepeas]

They're willing to wear all sorts of beads, bangles and flags BUT actually do any REAL policing - NAH !

[@Oxo380]

But not willing to wear a St George badge or fly the flag outside the police stations.

[@WOLFIE-96B-UK]

I'm a retired Police Officer and I'm disgusted at what the Police have become. I wouldn't even consider being part the modern Police Service.

[@alanjones4741]

Agreed

[@r1bew42]

I retired after 30yrs. Thank God I'm out but makes me soooo sad to see what has happened.

[@sparky6612]

Me too, retired 4 years ago and sickened to see what has become of the police, especially the Met. This is serious leadership failure.

[@r1bew42]

​@@sparky6612 Am hearing some unbelievable stories of new probationers. 52% of new recruits are leaving my local force within 18 months. Tells you all you need to know. That is a real crisis.

[@carlowingfield7743]

Solve crime ? They do not even acknowledge crime .

[@bye-72]

The police aren’t on the right side, two tier policing.

[@jamesavery2]

Don't forget they took to a knee to a potential anarchist group BLM

[@susanbishop5228]

Very few officers brought discredit on all

[@laurencesmith1435]

​@susanbishop5228 the vast majority of police discredit the police!

[@wendyholland2339]

YOU CANT TRUST A SNAKE

[@frankscott3654]

A snake will warn you before attacking, a snake has more morals and integrity.

[@dianewoolliscroft7429]

Two-tier policing, Rainbow Police, hurty feeling police.

[@dinaworkman306]

More bothered about the gay pride parade

[@dinaworkman306]

Took the knee for black lives matter

[@tobypoingdestre]

They not fit for the job they are on corporate duties now not for the people

[@BANANAHOUSE01]

The British Woke Force at its finest

[@NPC--666]

"Anarch Tyranny" its being done on purpose

[@darrents44]

Had friends and family in the force, one was in the MET. They all left because they didn't feel like they were backed up by fellow police or the senior officers. One was run over (while with a sergeant) the people involved were known (but foreign) nothing happened. In the end, he had to leave due to severe injuries. To this day, no one held accountable.

[@JavaAndroid]

Thay, are the exception. They left rather than kneel. Good lads. The rest? Cowards and traitors.

[@Simon.0000]

Mark is khan's fall guy. . remember all the orders come from the top.

[@andrewh2u]

I had two cars stolen from my parking. Got the security camera footage and identified who it was from the local social housing. Due to their juvenile status (they stole my cars and then set on fire), the Police would not prosecute and said if the security footage was not deleted then I could be charged for filming children. - You cant make this stuff up! Where I live now has private security as the Police are a joke... a bad joke.

[@jacquiesbrood]

I reported a man threatening dog walkers with a shot gun. Policeman told me to walk somewhere else.

[@STEVEBINNION1]

They just sit on computers all day looking for Goss 😂

[@TonyToning-ne7uq]

My car got broken into about 7 weeks ago, i didnt call the police because USELESS dont even come close in this day and age of political policing, and as i had surveillance footage of the crime happening and the criminal doing it... needless to say i found out who he was and payed him a visit and he was more than willing to give me back what he stole... he'll be ok when his casts come off..

[@mareeauld5778]

Good job...

[@andywilson9150]

Nice job.

[@Sandra-tu7pl]

Well done.

[@tonyshortland8812]

When I was a schoolboy, in Broughton, Flintshire, 1960's 70's. the local Bobby, was Mr Hughes, he would be out on his bicycle, every day, when you turned around, he seemed to always be there. Everyone knew him, everyone liked him, I think he knew every kid in the village by name. If you had a problem, he would listen. He was always giving advice, not only right from wrong. He was so much more than a policeman. I don't think any such police exist anymore

[@tinker3962]

Ex ... Fricken ... Exactly.

[@peterwright997]

Our local Bill Burgess knew the kids and the parents! He would go to the local pub to tell your dad if we were up to no good but we respected him!

[@Set-ri6rs]

maybe if they spent less time on mean tweets.

[@user-rc7nv3yi4f]

There are a lot of good officers tainted by the few. Also tainted by the idiotic decisions made by senior officers currently around public order. To see officers stand by and watch people clamber over our war memorials to attach offensive flags is just unreal. Those officers are letting themselves down.

[@lint8391]

I disagree. The whole culture of the police is rotten, from top to bottom. This is inevitable human nature when you set up a police gang. Them and us mentality. What we also have is a culture of laziness. The police are a combination of bad officers with too weak officers. The ones that stand by and do nothing whilst their colleagues are behaving badly. The very rare good police officers tend to get hounded out of the organisation. Just look at a selection of videos from Crimebodge, Auditing Britain, Focus Pocus etc etc etc.

[@monkeyspanner1186]

There are a Few good officers tainted by a lot of bad coppers who are not for the British public anymore and all are performing to the same woke diverse script .

[@jamesavery2]

When they do arrest someone , they turn up mob handed .

[@SheenaStandring-qd4kr]

I wouldn’t trust police to catch a cold

[@c.t5136]

Peter, thank you for saying publicly what many of us can't.

[@dinaworkman306]

Get rid if the chief constable

[@Jj-ng8hh]

What we HAVE to believe and what is actually happening are worlds apart...

[@keith8609]

The police have gone woke

[@russellturner5310]

The British police lack leadership from senior officers and the recruiting of officers today is shocking.

[@brocktoon8]

Hear, hear, Peter Bleskley!!!

[@mareeauld5778]

Your country isn't heading towards chaos.... chaos and lawlessness has already taken over

[@Vince_Paul]

How can the police solve a crime when they don’t come out to the crime? The police are unfit for purpose across the uk. An those that are good are shamed by those that are bad. An most police services are bad. The met police are clearly the Islam protection service. An other would fall into that if you include those that had groom gangs in their area. The police never go from one call to another call. They go from one McDonald’s or coffeehouse to the other. They definitely don’t go from one crime to another. Don’t understand how a police person can spend the hole time inside the station doing next to thing. It’s no wonder that communities don’t have beat constables/officers. An the rest are driving round at 30 mph, if they are two up in the vehicle your guaranteed to have one on their phone. If they are one up then you know they are going to do nothing.

[@belindafrisenda4306]

Two Tier Policing

[@rogermoore5761]

Vote Reform UK.The Police are overpaid and a complete waste of time. Too busy investigating hurty hurty crimes to catch criminals. I have lost all the respect I had for them since the lockdowns when they showed their true colours. The Haribo advertisement reflects our Police Force very well.

[@tonyhaynes9080]

And how are reform going to change the police?

[@bubbahope243]

I would say it's a lot more than half more like 95%

[@XelaMa]

They never leave their cars! When do we ever see them in the street, other than large specific events like football, matches, etc. Not much use to us in our normal everyday life

[@davidc3850]

Very well said Peter ! Totally agree with everything you said. Oh that we could have policemen of your calibre and professionalism today.

[@sarahlogan942]

Bring back Peter as a copper 😂 ❤this guy

[@julianchambers8372]

Spot On

[@MickeyDC-om3pv]

The more than half are those that have had dealings with them. The rest will open their eyes once they get the police experience. INEPT.

[@Okradoma]

Justice for PC Martin Scott RIP!

[@dstaff7373]

Read VICTORIA AGOGLIA's hand written letter, she Died UNTIMELY On Sussexx st Rochdale back in 2004...

[@user-uf9dh2un5f]

Her face is permanently surprised!

[@dinaworkman306]

Whos face

[@stevenkillington5041]

Dented is the understatement of the year

[@magdasmith1421]

Talk TV should remove JJ. His comments are turned off and he is so bloody rude. Obviously why he turns the comments off.

[@lexloose2112]

There will be vigilantes soon, doing the polices job

[@rgsnr8702]

this all started when woke started box ticking appointments instead of the best person for a job ,chaos ensued and still does

[@Blazeproudman]

Their too bizzy policing feelings 😡😡👍

[@graycurties6479]

I’m in my seventies but this is the half I’m now in

[@paulpilgrim4302]

British police job is to police the population not solve crimes

[@ActionGT77]

the police may as well not be there

[@alanmorgan7212]

Is it a bird or a plane, no its that super copper again, no wonder crime has gone through the roof since he retired

[@Polecat54941]

More than half could be 98 percent.

[@andrewstevens7453]

Personal experience, i don't trust them 🤔

[@OGChoPPeRGriFF]

"Justice"!??! Chance would be a fine thing

[@davidhall7648]

The indigenous half

[@jennybickham1407]

Tommy Robinson was treated terribly, with a dishonest prosecution and arrest. This applies whether you like him or not.

[@thedangler1754]

As a retired police officer, I don't recognise what I see nowadays. When we went out on duty you were proud to do the job, but I wouldn't feel that now. We were respected because we knew the law, we spoke/approached the public, we were tidy and professional. I don't see that today. Police spend too much time in their cars and not getting out of their vehicles and interacting with the public. Even as I went up through the ranks, I would still walk on many events and speak to the public. Police in my humble opinion are too distanced from the public they serve.

[@antoniopalmero4063]

How much longer until normality ?

[@kimholland4822]

I live in Essex and on a app called next door. A message from the police came up that their dedicated team of sex crime investigators has arrested how ever many pedophiles. Inportant work children need to be protected against pedophiles. But I don't understand why this kind of thing can't be out soused to civilians with the proper training? Freeing up police to do the job they are payed to do. I know someone who was burgeled 5 month ago she phoned the police no one came out on the night but she was given a crime number and told someone would be out to her as soon as possible. In the meantime could she make a list of everything stolen. So far she's still waiting. Yet we see police sitting on the moterway with speed gun's and as we go by some are asleep. So no I'd no longer trust the police and if I have to I will protect my home in my own way. Or see a fight I'll break it up

[@mll44]

I have a close older aged Welsh friend who doesn’t trust her local police as far as she can throw them. I was quite shocked. I’m a similar aged woman and have a lot more trust in US police forces. It’s our court systems and US Justice Dept that I don’t trust whatsoever.

[@bobcoggin4618]

Get off the Tweets, get on the Streets !

[@andrewblakesley4202]

I now no longer trust the Met but still trust most other Forces. There are bad apples in every job but I think the Met is beyond redemption.

[@user-gl3uf4iv6w]

So, why the tax payer must keep funding the police..

[@edingtonvilleonsea]

This is so funny, solving crime is for TV cops not reality. Exceptions for serious crimes.

[@TheSoulPoolPhoenix]

❤ Peter put him in charge see the difference

[@peterbryant6156]

This has been the case for years it is not something new. I always had great respect for the police then I became a victim of crime and saw at first hand what a joke the so called "service" was. Any excuse to do nothing was and is the order of the day.

[@philipturner9087]

Wouldn’t trust the police with directions let alone my safety.

[@rgsnr8702]

she advocate police focusing on one case at the cost of the 99 fails

[@not_glad]

Funny how the more they've shifted towards DEI, the worse they got. It's not funny in a haha way, more of a this is a serious problem that we need to correct way.

[@XelaMa]

They DO do some wonderful policing behind the scenes, with little cred. But there aren't enough of them to be on the street....and who would want to be on the street in uniform nowadays, hellishly vulnerable.

[@SimBir08]

The streets are only like that BECAUSE there is no police presence.

[@davidoldboy5425]

There is no doubt the average bobby is an honest dedicated professional, alas as in every profession now good policemen are bypassed for inferiors who fit a political agenda. This inevitably is the slippy slope to them giving up, another factor is the terrible pay, is a train driver worth 2/3 times more than an ordinary cop??

[@peterwright997]

Two tier policing i wouldn't trust the police to help my pull along duck 😂 the old adage you reap what you sow springs to mind!

[@Annie-ez4ol]

Top comment.

[@Flackoknows]

In regards to anything else id agree but if we talking sexual assault police will arest a man with no evidence. Its when is the other way around that police doesn't do sh!t

[@gavinsmith9564]

We all remember how the Police had to be dragged kicking and screaming to investigate the Brexiteers partying at No 10 during lockdown.

[@Sameoldfitup]

Talk TV is ZOG 😅

[@trevorjones5105]

Faries

[@SCjunk]

There has been recruitment of almost a generation of Police who never wanted to do shift work - work weekends or interact with the rough end of the public without resorting to a taser, I'm sure Peter Blesley was of a generation who in uniform had a baton and was for the most part able to deal with anyone by his command presence. The thing that most people fail to realise unless they are confronted by what the Police regard as unimportant crime - like shop lifting, car crime, and burglary is that they are low level "insurance will pay" crime is 'unimportant' until a victim comes into the mix, a shop assistant gets in the way of a teenage girl shop lifter and is face slammed or worse razored, knife crime is a real and present danger in car jacking / theft, and consider a scenario that starts with a burglary of a flat/ house and a nubile young woman is getting out of a bath, - does anyone think the perpetrator is going to gallantly hand the girl a towel say "sorry madam" and beat a hasty retreat, anyone who thinks it is okay to burgle and steal property is well down the road to violating the sanctity of a woman's body, that's why the offence of burglary has a Mens Rea component of breaking into property for the purpose of theft, criminal damage, bodily harm and sexual assault / rape. But it goes further I had the dubious bad luck to be attached to vice, and everyone knew as day followed night - if you had an Peeping tom or a Arnold Lane washing line thief on your patch, you had very a limited time before it escalated, but from the late 1980s until now that was almost down rated to a none crime and soon so will child abuse - the prats are already coining terms like MAPs, and then you wonder why woman have no confidence in reporting sex crimes. But a further point rightfully praising police diligence for very serious crimes like murder (although the victim is never restored) and terrorism is all very well but it is the lesser preventatives, the de-escalation where the real interaction with the public is paramount, just go on line and watch these ridiculous interactions with the 'annoying auditors' how often does a simple encounter with young officers, sometimes even PCSO end up with some-one doing a Section 42 Terrorism Act search for 'hostile reconnaissance' against advice by even College of Policing, when the reality the police officers time would be better utilised with doing low level anti-crime patrol - the reason Robert Peel set up the MET in 1828. The chances of a thin blue line (a gang tat) wearing constable - solving terrorism by patting down a camera carrying auditor like AB (others are available) is next to zero, but not falling into a woke racism trap and keeping your wits about you while doing general duties at a concert frequented by teenage girls might just have saved the world entire.

[@michaeljago4869]

Oh you mean the Muslim Enforcers, there is no Police anymore in the UK

[@rsvbiker4149]

More likely to try and charge you for whatever they can imagine and not what someone's actually done 😂 its nothing to do with Everard womens off her head its what we have to experience from them