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If council cared, it wouldn't be like this
• YOU quote Labour’s Community Safety Chief for
Camden (Secret plan to cut cops, March 23) complacently saying
that crime in general has dropped locally, and accepting the
cut in local policing because “sometimes when you do a
job well, you get penalised”.
But we should ask how he squares this with Labour’s
local campaigning leaflet, where he says: “Buyers will
be targeted to send a clear message that Camden is not a place
to purchase drugs.” Note the future tense: “will”.
Labour can’t have it both ways. The fact is that Metropolitan
Police figures show a 44 per cent increase in drug crime in
Camden Town and Primrose Hill in the last year. In the same
period, drug crime in London as a whole went up 26 per cent
– and in Islington only 19 per cent.
I am not convinced that a council that let us get into this
state is one that really cares enough to get us out.
Chris Naylor
Treasurer, Camden Liberal Democrats
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