Graham M Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 This is interesting. Wonder how it will affect renewals/grants etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45800073 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Reading that article I would guess West Mercia Police felt they were not getting the best part of the deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham M Posted October 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Not counting the City of London police Warwickshire are the smallest force in the UK with only 823 officers. So I would imagine that West Mercia have been paying the lion's share of the expenses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbel Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 was leak wootten, then Malvern, hope back to leak wootten, save a postage stamp, been happy whichever I dealt with, maybe they will make their minds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph5172 Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 It was the worse thing they ever did merging. Warwickshire got the rough end. No investment, closure of offices, renewals went from 4 weeks to 11 months. No out of hours visits only 9-5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) Sad to see my old force reduced to this. I think we had more police officers when I joined in 1962. Just looked at the report and was taken aback by the scruffy appearance of that PCC Campion.... would not give me great confidence if I lived in West Mercia. I'll lend him a tie if he can't afford one. Edited October 14, 2018 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwr Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 I just had to look up West Mercia as had not heard of it. I am now educated and think it would be Warks that got the raw deal, however I have no idea. While doing this I see that West Midlands police are a possible future partner for Warks. I can only this as a bad thing, metropolitan and rural police forces have little in common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham M Posted October 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 But West Midlands are already paired up with Staffordshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 I joined the original Warwickshire, then it became Warwicks and Coventry, when the City Police got absorbed, then with the formation of larger force areas the West Midlands force was formed and took away part of Warwickshire and Coventry City. I stayed in that part of the West Midlands force which was taken over. For many years we were known as the West Muddleland Force as officers where wearing their original uniforms, albeit with new badges and numbers for some, but different headgear. Things did not get any better until Geoffrey Deere arrived as Chief Constable and he pulled the force back into some sort of shape. Prior to that some of us looked back at the now very small Warwickshire force and wished we had stayed put. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 They claimed they would save a lot of money by amalgamating ......... and now they claim the will save another lot of money by separating. I won't hold my breath for the rates to go down though. Idiots, the lot of them, with no idea of how to wisely spend the taxpayer/ratepayer's money - and it seems no idea of running a Police Force either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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