Police command are busy addressing some shocking recruitment and management issues and yet some matters stand out as every day policing continues:

  • The officers in Bolton town centre late evening who take a coffee to a homeless man who sleeps out despite offers of a bed.
  • The officers who despise the ‘toe rags’ who target elderly people and harm the elderly - they go above and beyond to find those criminals.
  • The officers in Bolton who offer to lay the bricks in their free time if more jail cells could be built - Sure prison does not solve all the crime problems but it takes the worst off the streets.
  • Every single officer who puts ‘the uniform on’ (some wear plain clothes of course) and risk their lives every single day in the exercise of their duty.
  • The command officers who put their heads on their pillows, mind checking ‘did I do right by all of my officers today.

Let’s not forget all the families who are proud their kith and kin choose to serve every day in the force.

Cllr Sue Haworth

Bolton MBC