Why can't authorities show a bit of British spirit? (From Surrey Comet)

Why can't authorities show a bit of British spirit?

8:37am Thursday 24th March 2011 in Your Say

Keep safer neighbourhood teams as they are says London Assembly member Jenny Jones.

The mayor is reducing the police budgets and that is regrettable.

Lack of resources are everywhere are affecting the ability to consult the public about environmental services, provide adequate health services, repair potholes in roads, provide free public spaces, and fund adequate clinics.

That is just from looking at the other letters on the same page as hers.

The Metropolitan Police is one of the last state monopolies with high costs, top-heavy bureaucracy, a lack of flexibility and a propensity to favour ever greater increments in resourcing.

So why can't our authorities show a bit of positive British spirit and joined up thinking for a change?

The Metropolitan Police also have more capacity to change and even improve if only they could and would use their decreasing budgets wisely.

Less top-heavy, less bureaucratic, more visible (is this the "back to basics" MPs keep quoting?) and the budgets will look huge.

Money can be better spent elsewhere than on propping up a badly run institution, and perhaps these cuts are what the police need to spur improvements and utilise their resources better.

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