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Thousands of "community crime fighters" are to be trained as part of a £5m package, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has promised.
She told the Labour Party conference that 3,600 volunteers would act as a link between the public and police.
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Hmmmm, volunteers who help the Police without being paid? Thats a good idea, in fact it's so good I'm sure there might already be something like it going on. Lets just have a look at a special constabulary website.
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The Special Constabulary is a force of trained volunteers who work with and support their local police.
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And I'd be willing to bet a decently trained and motivated special would be 100X more effective than a secret army of trained curtain twitchers, which as its a new Labour scheme will never work anyway, will be hugely overbudget and once a few of the more glaring flaws are pointed out will be quietly shelved never to be heard of again.
Still they could use the money instead to
stop rioters being too cold.
