A private police force that runs under the cuddly moniker, My Local Bobby, will be hitting the streets of Britain after a ‘successful’ trial run in London’s wealthiest areas, including Belgravia, Mayfair and Kensington.
My Local Bobby exercise private
prosecutions – their parent company, TM-Eye, is the only investigatory
company in the country – to their knowledge – that does so.Whereas when the police make an
arrest, they have to hand the case over to the Crown Prosecution Service
to determine whether there is a good chance of conviction and whether
prosecuting the matter would be in the public interest, all My Local
Bobby have to consider is whether pursuing the prosecution would look
good to potential punters.While the My Local Bobby policemen are essentially powerless,
enabled only to exercise all of our right of a citizens’ arrest, the
man on the street doesn’t know that. They are there to bully people in
rich areas who shouldn’t be there; to assert property rights and the
right of exclusion and social division that comes with them.
These ‘essentially powerless’ coppers are also a step to normalize private police forces with real power. Give it a few years and you’ll see the power of these fuckers expanding to a lot more than
a citizens’ arrest.
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