article_snippet: Critics said the shocking statistics sounded the death knell for the traditional Dixon Of Dock Green-style beat bobby pounding Britain’s streets.
article_snippet: ‘this means the policy of neighbourhood policing, which was very popular, has become if not quite a dead letter, then severely weakened by the reductions in police strength.
article_snippet: ’ Shadow policing minister Jack Dromey said: ‘Neighbourhood policing – the bedrock of British policing – is being eroded.
article_snippet: The public see The public different with fewer people saying that The public regularly see bobbies on the beat.
article_snippet: ’ Steve White, chairman of Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said: ‘
article_snippet: It represents a sad indictment of the Government’s policing policies.
article_snippet: Last month police unions in the West Midlands warned police cuts meant bobbies on the beat had become ‘an endangered species’.
article_snippet: Policing Minister Mike Penning said: