The last posting on "wheel spinning oiks..." has provoked a few interesting comments including one which raises the question of Police Station opening hours once again. To reitterate: how is it that gangs of teenagers can gather, make a nusiance of themselves, create unsightly litter every day, intimidate passers by, and indulge in illegal underaged drinking? and all this right under the noses of Tonbridge Old Bill, lireally in the shadow of a large regional centre Police Station? I'll tell you how, and the answer is very simple: Tonbridge nick closes at 8pm; they proudly display Their "Opening Hours" as 8am to 8pm on their web site. Now those hours might be impressive if they were a retailer on the High Street, that said I reckon Monsoon could be open longer than them and Sainsbury's definitely are. Ok, I'm not suggesting that the Tonbridge Boys in Blue stop working and are home for the six o'clock news although most of them probably are but surely, if they are serious about increasing their perceived public profile, they should bring back the desk Sergeant and have an open door throughout the night so that crimes can easily be reported. If someone has to wait until office hours to report something, or hand in a wallet or jewellery they've found in the street then they'll probably just not bother and keep it instead. It's not long since a major robbery was committed in Tonbridge within a few hundred yards of the Cop Shop. Would the Securitas robbery have happened if there had been a greater Police presence in the town? We'll probably never know the answer to that one. But please Rozzers don't let kids take the piss out of you night in and night out....
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