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News: Police have appealed for rural residents in north Northumberland to be on their guard against travelling criminals.
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<blockquote data-quote="Ranger Security Solutions" data-source="post: 7783727" data-attributes="member: 158492"><p>Unfortunately, an ideal world and reality are two separate things. And the idea that victims are entirely blameless is popular but a misconception. If I walk down the street flashing my wealth, I should not be surprised if I get mugged. Everyone should be able to walk down the street without fear of crime or become the victim of actual crime, but that is not reality. When I travel to far off places where there is a high risk of terrorism or organised crime, I advise clients on appropriate security risk management (which sometimes includes taking me with them) and I also take the necessary security precautions.</p><p></p><p>Without a doubt, crime should not happen, but in the real world it does happen; and there are things we can do to reduce our risks. Being ignorant of potential crime or naïve does not prevent crime or make it only the fault/responsibility of the criminal's. Sad, but true.</p><p></p><p>It is complex, and there are many many contributing factors that have led us to this sorry situation we have all found ourselves in.</p><p></p><p>And we <strong>all </strong>have to contribute to the solution. Any belief that it is also entirely the fault of the police is also wrong; though I fully agree that more - a lot more - can be done. But the police aren't going to do that without understanding the issues, in the way that they go about understanding issues.</p><p></p><p>I completely agree with you, that the police should be more interested, and you should not have to turn your property in to Fort Knox (but even Fort Knox is not impenetrable). Your profile states that you're in Lincolnshire, and the Lincs Police are quite active in tackling rural crime. I'm sure individual officer's would like to do more, but they can't at the moment.</p><p></p><p>For the record, I am ex-military, not ex-police in case you (and others) where thinking I was running a police fan club. I am not. But I do appreciate that they are not in a good place and have a difficult job to do, stuck between the criminals, restrictive laws, limited funding/resourcing and an irate public that are only interested in their own issues and do not always look at the bigger picture.</p><p></p><p>Farmers, and the rural community (and I include myself in this, as the son of a farmer, coming from a long line of farmers on both sides of the family since we first landed on UK soil back in 866 AD, or when ever) are pragmatic, and don't like wasting our time on something not worth the effort when getting nothing back. But I do feel that we have got ourselves in to a “catch twenty-two” somewhat. Farmers and rural communities reduced reporting incidents to the police as it was too often the perception that the police were only vaguely interested and rarely attended post-incident; due to disproportionally low reporting, rural crime was generally low priority within the different forces (as an organisation, not by individual officers); and therefore rural crime teams were poorly funded resulting in less resources to respond to and manage rural crime as effectively as would have been liked, further compounding the reluctance of farmers and rural communities to report crimes – in some respects, our own worst enemies, as we say in Yorkshire “<em>shy bairns get nowt</em>”, or conversely, “<em>the squeaky wheel gets the oil</em>”.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ranger Security Solutions, post: 7783727, member: 158492"] Unfortunately, an ideal world and reality are two separate things. And the idea that victims are entirely blameless is popular but a misconception. If I walk down the street flashing my wealth, I should not be surprised if I get mugged. Everyone should be able to walk down the street without fear of crime or become the victim of actual crime, but that is not reality. When I travel to far off places where there is a high risk of terrorism or organised crime, I advise clients on appropriate security risk management (which sometimes includes taking me with them) and I also take the necessary security precautions. Without a doubt, crime should not happen, but in the real world it does happen; and there are things we can do to reduce our risks. Being ignorant of potential crime or naïve does not prevent crime or make it only the fault/responsibility of the criminal's. Sad, but true. It is complex, and there are many many contributing factors that have led us to this sorry situation we have all found ourselves in. And we [B]all [/B]have to contribute to the solution. Any belief that it is also entirely the fault of the police is also wrong; though I fully agree that more - a lot more - can be done. But the police aren't going to do that without understanding the issues, in the way that they go about understanding issues. I completely agree with you, that the police should be more interested, and you should not have to turn your property in to Fort Knox (but even Fort Knox is not impenetrable). Your profile states that you're in Lincolnshire, and the Lincs Police are quite active in tackling rural crime. I'm sure individual officer's would like to do more, but they can't at the moment. For the record, I am ex-military, not ex-police in case you (and others) where thinking I was running a police fan club. I am not. But I do appreciate that they are not in a good place and have a difficult job to do, stuck between the criminals, restrictive laws, limited funding/resourcing and an irate public that are only interested in their own issues and do not always look at the bigger picture. Farmers, and the rural community (and I include myself in this, as the son of a farmer, coming from a long line of farmers on both sides of the family since we first landed on UK soil back in 866 AD, or when ever) are pragmatic, and don't like wasting our time on something not worth the effort when getting nothing back. But I do feel that we have got ourselves in to a “catch twenty-two” somewhat. Farmers and rural communities reduced reporting incidents to the police as it was too often the perception that the police were only vaguely interested and rarely attended post-incident; due to disproportionally low reporting, rural crime was generally low priority within the different forces (as an organisation, not by individual officers); and therefore rural crime teams were poorly funded resulting in less resources to respond to and manage rural crime as effectively as would have been liked, further compounding the reluctance of farmers and rural communities to report crimes – in some respects, our own worst enemies, as we say in Yorkshire “[I]shy bairns get nowt[/I]”, or conversely, “[I]the squeaky wheel gets the oil[/I]”. [/QUOTE]
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