Cops will walk you home with your cash
Do you feel nervous after visiting the cash machine? Tell the police and they’ll escort you home.
The bonkers service, offered by Metropolitan Police’s “Safer Neighbourhoods” team in Wanstead and Snaresbrook, East London. Residents can call up and arrange for a uniformed officer to accompany them from the cash machine to their front door.
Posters state: ‘If you are withdrawing money from a cash machine, bank or post office, please contact a member of your local (Safer Neighbourhoods) team to escort you on foot to your home.
‘Escorts from the police can only be made from the bank, and then you will be escorted STRAIGHT HOME on foot, unfortunately the police cannot do your shopping with you.’
Tory MP Ann Widdecombe said: ‘If they’ve got all these officers to do that, then why are they not spending more resources in arresting drug dealers?
‘The police always say they haven’t got enough officers to combat-drug crime, but that’s because they’re doing silly things like this.’
Now come on Ann. We reckon that if they could combine this with a personal shopping service, they might really be on to something…
Hat-tip to The Daily Mail
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