UK cops just spend 8-minutes an hour on patrol
London, Oct.6 :: British cops spend just eight minutes an hour on patrol due to red
tape, Home Office figures show.
Despite Government vows to slash paperwork, police have one hour 39 minutes on the beat
in a 12-hour shift, it was revealed yesterday.
A survey of 43 forces in England and Wales in 2007-8 showed only 13.8 per cent of cops'
time was on patrol, down from 15.2 per cent in 2004-5.
According to The Sun, Tory MP Paul Bone gave the figures in an answer to questions.
Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: "Officers
say they are absolutely overburdened by bureaucracy, form-filling and sitting in front of
computers when they want to be out fighting crime."
--ANI
