With mental health, social care and homelessness budgets cut and terrorist threats increasing – just what should police forces stop doing if their numbers are cut to the bone?
” … You could give more to mental health and social services to ease their case loads and save police time. Vanished youth services could be restored, instead of police coping with the fallout. If not, then we need the police to sweep up after the cuts in every other service.
After Paris, would you want to be the home secretary or the chancellor who said getting down the deficit was a matter of “national security” while cutting the safety net of a reassuring, neighbourhood police force that makes people feel secure in a time of fear? There comes a tipping point where crime and disorder will rise: we may be about to find out exactly when that is.”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/17/britain-police-cuts-theresa-may
East Devon Watch 
David Cameron soon found enough money for “How Many More” 130,000 to strengthen England from any threat from terrorist attack. Counties outside London may see the odd Policeman in cars But as we are told our crime rate is going down, unless we are all willing to pay around another £25 a year, i guess we will not be seeing what was part of our every day-life, and with all our country-side being developed, and EDDC selling the Esplanade, while our pot holes are getting deeper, and deeper Exmouth has a Master Plan to increase Tourism , making plenty of well paid jobs available so all the young people can afford to buy a house from the hundreds of homes, they are intending to build.
Unfortunately our EDDC live in a never never land, while the tourist stay in a Premier Inn.
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