Crime ? what’s the solution, What’s the thing that the government can tell us that will make us vote for labour in the next election, I don’t know all I can do is voice my opinion over what I think is wrong with the way things are going. I believe we have reached a youth mob society the in word is chav. This word seems to give young people a belonging to a society that will pinch an old ladys hand bag that will carry knifes around and binge drink in the park and elsewhere. You say nice technical words to lower us into a false pretence about the way things are going and will at this rate end up. You introduce asbos; harsher sentencing and electronic tagging to make us all feel safe. I believe the problem has been built on the modern life style the way things are handed out and also the build up of people who are unwilling to work. I do get really anoid when I hear that there was another youth stabbing and the perpetrator just receives a slap on the rist ect. In my opinion enough is enough and something needs to be done soon and we need to see someone from the goverment actually speak out to us the people and not just bantered to the opisition in prime ministers question so lets see the changes lets say now not in 2009 or 2020. Promises are easy to make but are they to keep thankyou

Where do we start the security guard that was stabbed on Oxford Street how was he allowed to keep his SIA license if he was on a rape charge? why wasn't he locked up police must have known there could be revenge attacks? Prisons why can't the old disused military bases be used at least for cat C and Cat D prisoners why are prisoners who are able to work sitting around all day playing Xbox suggestion: Get them working in chain gangs on the national railways and motorways in bright orange suits with the prison names stamped E.G HMP Norwich on the back this way people across Britain can see that crime doesn't pay if you are on a train or driving on the motorway you can show your kids and tell them if you commit a crime thats where you will be what a great deterant plus how quickly would this improve the national transport system as for women prisoners don let them get away with it have them doing low risk government admin work again how much money would this save getting rid of highly paid pen pushers.

Crime? That's a laugh.The police/government ought to look at themselves sometimes. A drug addict ran out in front of me/my car, (And I DON'T care that some say that's an illness - he almost wasted me and my passenger, left me without a car/recover the costs to buy a new one. If he wants to kill himself through drugs, fine, but when it's me, no, thanks). The police told me at the time the bloke was high on drugs. The CPS brought charges against ME for 'driving without due care' (They conveniently left out the fact the bloke was on drugs though). Ok it was dropped, they managed 'to find' something wrong with my car,(easy nick comes to mind, burglaries, rapes are too costly). I wanted to dispute the police engineer but 'the law' says I can't contradict a police officer/engineer even when I knew I was right. But I couldn't get legal aid to fight it. (It cost me £900. and with the car another £600 out of pocket) Yet some asylum seeker can have legal aid to fight his case? Justice, I think not. And how come police officers get off when they're caught speeding? Let's have some fairness, sort out the CPS, and are you going to give me back my money for an unfair thing that wasn't my fault - I'm voting Tory

I am pleased to say that my area has just got it own community officers patrolling the area. I would like to see leaflets posted into all homes telling us who the officers are and how we contact them. I now know they are out there which is good but I still don't know how to contact them save for dialing 999 or the local station.

THE PRISONS ARE FULL BECAUSE IT IS NO DETERRANT.WATCHING TV,GOING TO THE GYM,THREE MEALS A DAY,ITS RIDICULOUS.PRISON OUGHT TO BE UNBEARABLE SO THEY DON'T OFFEND AGAIN.MAKE THEM WORK,INSTEAD OF SITTING AROUND FOR HOURS,ESPECIALLY AT WEEKENDS.I AM SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE AS MY SON IS CURRENTLY SERVING A PRISON SENTENCE. ALSO BRING BACK NATIONAL SERVICE,THAT WOULD GET THE KIDS OFF THE STREETS AND MAKE THEM HAVE RESPECT AND DISIPLINE,THATS WHAT IS LACKING IN THIS COUNTRY,THERE ARE TOO MANY DO GOODERS.

Develop education in the community so that our children aren't locked up in schools leaving the streets empty & then released & unable to know how to function in the Real World. We have the technology to develop a national database including each child which could be used for assessments levels to ensure whole person development. Education does not need to be term-time based & could involve all members of the community including the parents & wider family.

More police and prisons won't solve the crime issue, you need to sort out the courts and the legal system. More coded law less case. Make the punishment fit the crime; for example, drunk and violent in a town centre, minimum six month ban from all licenced premises,repeat offenders placed under home curfew, tagged, and all related costs to be paid in full, that is all legal, policing and associated emergency services costs. Stopped from wages at source.If they are not working they repay at minimum wage rate in community service hours; using bailiffs as a final deterrent, all possessions at their place of residence deemed as theirs. Without money they won't be able to get drunk!

When did life reduce to 10-15 years? Was this in your manifesto? Did we hava a say? Who benefits...apart from the killer? Whats the use of building more jails if you let the prisoners out early?

I think its about time we take a stand on this subject and do something about it before the next election or labour will end up being voted out of office. Criminals should not get away with custodial sentances just because there is no room in our prisons, the simple answer is to build more, we should be strict on violent crimes or crimes that have had a big impact on other people, and police offices should not be tied to a desk in an office carrying out paperwork, paperwork should be done by police administators instead leaving offices to do the job they are paid to do. This country is a joke when someone can run someone over with intent to kill them and instead of getting attempted murder, they get G.B.H how on earth is this punishing someone?

Is it not criminal to do what ALL the MP'S have done with their expensess all these years??? Or is that different because it's how the 'Honourable Agreement' is worded and Honourable gentlemen are just that! NO IT'S CRIMINAL, and if that was Joe Blogs off any street he would go to prison for stealing tax payers money. Here's one for you out of touch, greedy,in it for the money politicians, why when reforming the way you claim expensess, which you quite obviously have to now that it's public knowledge MP's are abusing expensess. Why dosn't a second property (in London) you all crave, why dosn't this property pass onto the next MP taking over that position. So the property gives the MP his London accomadation whilst MP only, yet remains public owned?

i think its called fraud theft and decption

Paul, it's 'legalised theft and deception' for a select few - are these lot really listening on here? It doesn't seem that way. They tell you that their wages are 'catching up' with what they're owed due to the nature of their job. So a police officer, fireman, nurse, teacher etc use the same argument but are ignored. Real fairness and no discrimination, I don't think!

What a joke! delivering on crime, do you people(Labour Government) really believe what your telling each other. You want to start by making prisons places criminals don't want to return to, like the place in America where more inmates equals more tents. Again your tied down by red tape, human rights, worry of them rioting etc etc. It's not rocket science, these places won't be over crowded IF several things happened, deal with them harshly before the prison stage, make them pay. I recently brought a delinquent youth to justice (if that's what you can call it), this youth along with his delinquent friends vandalise, assault, burgle and terrorize the local community where I live, they are scum bags. The police like so many people before me suggested I think about taking the matter through the courts because they knew the trouble woudn't stop there if i took the stance. I did and he finally got covicted of criminal damage and was fined £50!!! this is fundamentally wrong and flawed. He is guilty of £200 worth of damage to my car and fined £50? I'm informed he dosn't work therefore means tested! rubbish he can't pay, you people pay this delinquent his dole, he can pay and must pay. Not only should he pay the damage he must pay the costs getting him to court, the legally aided solicitor, magistrates, police, scenes of crime people that got the DNA sample. This case must of run into the £8-10,000 bracket of tax payers money for him to get £50 fine. IF this youth was birched he'd never damage another car again, his mates would also think twice about their behaviour and the consequences of their actions, but what does this goverment do??? give them a status symbol ASBo or waste of time fine that bares no reflection what so ever to the crime they commit. In order to deliver on crime Mr Brown you need to get seriously tough on these people commiting the crimes in the first place.

I am beginning to hate this party. The police are being trained to use the new 'tasers' which the American police are using. They are receiving only two days training. The taser is a cruel and inhumane device, easily misused and abused. I think it is disgusting that a Labour Party has introduced this instruments of torture. This is the sort of thing the Conservatives would introduce and now Labour are becoming more like the Tories everyday. It makes me utterly sick the way Labour is turning away from the working classes. I am disgusted.

My wife is a PCSO and is very proud and I am very proud in what she does. She does care for the area that she patrols and gets involved in many aspects of the community. So why is it that her neighbourhood police team are still waiting to move in to their neighbourhood offices?. It has been at least 18months now since the process started and still there is haggling over who pays what etc. in relation to the building (house) they are sharing with the Council. And the amount of time it takes a Council/Police to install necessary equipment for them to do their job efficiently. Why is the Council charging the Police rent for the offices they will occupy?

As regards PCSO powers. Why has Lancashire Constabulary recently reduced the amount of powers a PCSO now has. You ask any neighbourhood what they want their Police Community Support officers to do. And that is to keep law and order to arrest and detain criminals and deal with, there and then any problems that may arise. They are now not even allowed to take statements. They are told basically not to get involved. What is going on????

Where are all the promised extra police? They are to busy trying to make more money for the councils by catching motorists speeding,its the only thing i ever see the police doing these days.So just where is our taxes going Mr Brown?

Where are all the extra police that are supposed to be combating crime in the community? Every day I go out and I see "wannabe" police officers, otherwise known as community support officers, who have very little power to combat crime. If any crime does occur, they simply contact the police like anybody else would do, and thus serve no perpose in our communities whatsoever. It is clear that the government have enlisted these people so they do not have to employ "real" police to do the job. They serve no purpose and are simply impersonating police officers.

Much of the 'combatting crime' work is being done undercover, Christopher, and that leads on to the dramatic 'busts' that the news media love to report.If what you want is more visible PCs in uniform simply patrolling the streets to provide assurrance and some deterrence to opportunist bandits then force-strengths would have to increase (as would cost to you through the Rates bill) dramatically.

Community support officers have the same arrest powers as the general public. And the majority of the ones in and around warrington appear to resemble store security guards. What we need is more coppers on push bikes or on foot, patrolling around, interacting with the general public. I think the general question everyone really wants to know is where the heck are our taxes going?

I am a lone parent of a 2, one of whom is a teenager and I am a qualified teacher. Whilst I recognise from my experience of raising children, that it is not alway easy to keep youngsters on the straight and narrow, I feel from experience that children do not seem to have any sense of respect or resposibility for their actions. Youngsters from a very young age are bailed out of trouble by their families and are not taught from a young age that there ar consequences for their actions. Most of my friend's children are pleasant, respectable people who have been taught from a young age that if they do anything wrong the consequences are not pleasant. However, the children that I teach and my expereince with young people who do step on the wrong side of the law and who act in a disprespectable way, is that from a very young age, they learn that if they do wrong, nothing is going to happen to them. With regards to violence, drug and alcohol abuse, if the kids thought their would be reproccusions inflicted on them for their actions, their would be a decrease in this kind of behavoiur. As Richard said, being drafted would be an excellent way for them to learn some respect. Punishing shop owners for selling alcohol to the under 18's is ridiculous. The children need to take responsibility. the shop owners (especially small buisinesses), are probably threatened by the youngsters who demand alcohiol anyway. Children also think their parents will bail them out and police have no authority any more. It stems right from primary school. Some children from a very young age are disruptive and if their parent's are called in, the teacher's are accused of victimising the child in question. So from a young age, the wrong message is sent out. Behave badly and nothing will happen because, teachers and the police are powerless. I do not believe in corporal punnishment. I have never raised a hand to my children and although they may on occassions challenge me, they have always respected me, their teachers and aspire to be good people, as do all of my friends children, because they have been taught correctly, to respect others and that there are consequences f or their actions.

I strongly agree with what victoria has said concerning families, but that still does not solve the unsocial youth element that walk the streets today, once again i have had to watch an elderly lady being harrassed by young people outside a local shop,on approaching these young people i myself then recieved abuse, this is a lady who probably served her country during the war, that struggles with a pittance of a pension just trying to purchase items from a shop to then be confronted with the disrespecful young people of today,why??? and i cant be accused of not understanding young as i have been a youth worker working with dissafected young people for 7 years.prisons dont solve this police or community officers , the youth culture of today has no repect for any of the above mentioned,the cure instead of asbo,s which they think are badges of honour, simple, the armed forces are stretched thin police forces are too, bring back draughting, for there crimes they serve in the police or armed forces, i am sure if they are confronted on a daily basis with the problems they themselves create they would soon change there attitudes.I myself joined the TA and served for five years, i had respect anyway but i learned about all the things these young people lack.Family is important in a childs upbringing but the armed forcescan be a replacement family, a show on tv called bad lads camp proved this point, oh so well.

Why are prison cells not doubling or trebling up to accomodate all these extra prisoners? Forget any talk of human rights. If you can not live correctly among those who get on with a lawful life, you forfit any such human rights. I do not believe prisons are full. If, as I say there are not enough cells for one each, then tough on the criminal. Get them sharing. Make prison a place of punishment, like it used to be. And let those who are thinking of comitting wrong, be able to know what and how bad it will be, if sent down. For once, put the law abiding first.

Im sorry Victoria but I don't agree with you here. You said we all make mistakes and "would you wish to be severely punish for it" and I should hope that if the man in question, "Ian" is now a reformed character from what ever he may have done ofcourse he should wish to be punished severely. We have it in us all to make mistakes and we have it in us all to control that possibility and so those who choose not to recognise that "conscience" should do so at their own risk and then have their human rights stripped. More Americans are Christians than in the UK so if you are indeed a Christian then the bible agrees on an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Most people would continue to re offend if the wishy washy "let them realise their mistakes" attitude was taken because they love to offend, they get a kick from it. So give them a real kick and see if they want to carry on offending then!

Why are labour trying to create 7,000 new prison places when over all crime rates are at their lowest for what at least 5 yrs. Instead of wasting tax payers money shouldnt there by more of an emphasis on community sentences and getting offenders reeducated and away from a life of crime. Not only that there seems to be a break down in communication between sentencers, custody should be used only for the most serious of offences.

I too have noticed the increase of community police officers in my area. It seems to bring back the idea of a local bobby, who everyone knows. Some police stations are being downgraded nearby but I feel there has become a better presence on the streets and this is excellent. I do believe however that everybody should be given the number for their local officer/station, reducing 999 calls and building on existing communiies.

There just is not the public confidence in community sentences at present. If offenders could do real useful work and reducation it would be a good thing.