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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Police officers need to be able to chase criminals

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Sinopsis

On crime and the news that retail crime is now so bad we experience almost 300 incidents a day. Quite rightly when we talk about crime, our focus should be on the victims mainly. But spare a thought for the police as well, because they are clearly so frustrated by what’s happening. I spoke to an officer today, completely unrelated to the crime stats. He just wanted to get it off his chest how frustrated he is by Andrew Coster’s national headquarters stopping the front line officers from doing their jobs. I'm not going to say where this officer works, so he doesn’t get in trouble, but he told me today that in the area he patrols there are a couple of what he calls scroties. Guys who keep getting in trouble, getting bail and then doing it again. But this officer is getting really frustrated at Andrew Coster’s directive that they’re not allowed to chase these guys. So this is what really made this officer upset. Recently, these crims were in a car, officer wanted to chase so they drove directly at him, because t