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The assertion that '(burglars) were usually armed because it was then legal for the public to own firearms' claims a causative effect and implies that the british gun ban has improved the situation. In fact, british crime rates in general and specially gun crime have increased since the gun ban. By definition, criminals do not respect laws. A (lesser) administrative law prohibiting the possession of guns is not likely to have a dampening effect on a criminal who derives his income from breaking (greater) criminal laws. To the contrary, it provides the illegaly armed criminal with the confidence to confront a victim guaranteed to be unarmed. Compare the incidence of "hot" burglaries in the US (13%) and the UK (IIRC ca. 50%) 212.152.157.50 (talk) 10:16, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
The Internet is louse with Yank twisters who willingly or ignorantly misrepresent the gun situation, debate, and politics in the UK - they and their input are best ignored.
e.g. most ant-gun measures in the last 30 years or so have been carried out by the Tory Party (the rough equivalent of the US Republican Party) not the Labour Party (who are like US Democrats). That is because the 3 gun massacres in the last 30 years (Hungerford, Dunblane, Whitehaven) all occurred under Tory rule (caused by the co-incidence that The Tories rule about 2/3 of the time and there aren't many gun massacres). Labour have simply then kept those new laws when ruling due to being anti gun (too) anyway. Both parties subsequently feeling justified on witnessing ongoing US massacres and so having no motive to change stringent path either concerning public safety or party politics.
Trying to explain that to "Republicans pro gun/Democrats anti gun" Yanks though fails in their `parallel' view of UK politics. Piers Morgan attempted that parallel explanation with them - which as Morgan found doesn't work and isn't the truth about Britain and guns anyway.
House Breaking and Burglary were different in the way you describe, but have been classed the same since the 1960's.
There isn't a place in the section on Sir Robert Peel that ties his force to the name "Peelers", other than a captioned image and a redirect to the section. Morfusmax (talk) 23:03, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
The link "Woman police constable" from the WPC Disambiguation page led me to an article titled "Woman police constable" and to a sub-paragraph titled "Female police officers". In that paragraph, there is another link also labelled "Woman police constable", but this time it leads to the subparagraph "United Kingdom and the Commonwealth" in the "Constable" article. Following two apparently identical links to different articles is confusing.
Can we either change the link destination or the text of the link to better reflect where we are going?
WesT (talk) 01:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
This sentence occurs in reference to the state of London for policing in the Second World War:
"The chaotic conditions of the City under aerial attack were followed by crime, such as looting, black market sales, and rationed goods." (User's emphasis)
The last three words do not make sense; I nominate them for deletion unless someone can make the sentence make sense as to what criminal activity concerned rationed goods.Cloptonson (talk) 19:13, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Under the secction 2010 - Present, a citation is solicited for the mention of the poisonings in WIltshire. Might I suggest the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal as the citation? However, the sentence as currently written is vague enough to make the original author's intention as to reference uncertain. There may yet be an altogether different poisoning case in Whiltshire than the one involving the Skripals. Does anyone know of one (or more) of which the author might have intended to cite? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taimdala (talk • contribs) 21:22, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
The section on Women Police Officers mentions Clare became the first woman chief constable, for Lancashire. I see nothing that links here with the police force who are the subject of this article, and it may get deleted as irrelavancy. If she was a MPS veteran it would be useful to mention it.Cloptonson (talk) 14:25, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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This portrait of "Mr Thomas, Superintendent of Police", dated circa 1829-1831, was published in London. Does anyone know who he is? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:05, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Are there any suggestions as to how this should be handled? Sweet6970 (talk) 12:59, 24 March 2022 (UTC)