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Police send out 900,000 booklets
6:38am Saturday 30th August 2008
A summary of policing in Thames Valley is to be delivered to almost 900,000 households throughout September.
The 12-page booklet contains information on the activities of Thames Valley Police Force and Thames Valley Police Authority over the past 12 months.
It is a statutory requirement of the authority to produce the policing summaries.
The same format as last year will be used. There will be five different documents, one for each of the force's Basic Command Units - Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire East and Berkshire West.
Christine Weston, chairman of the Thames Valley Police Authority, said: "Although we are required to produce the summaries by the Government, it is something which I am very pleased to do.
"Posting them through the door gives us an opportunity to get into the homes of people throughout the region and show the public what policing in Thames Valley is about.
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1.Is this ANOTHER excuse for them to sit in the police station and not be on the streets?
2.Who's going to teach them to write?
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Big Brother, Airstrip One says...
1:31pm Sat 30 Aug 08
we all know what the police do - it's on the telly every single night telling us how heroic they are.
Meanwhile, somewhere else in Oceania - an old lady gets mugged (while the cops try to catch someone going 1 mile over the speed limit.)
What a bunch of utter tossers they are.