Why doesn't the council, instead of hiring private security guards, instead hire... the police, whose job it literally is to do this??
It's not the job of the local police to patrol private neighborhoods on request -- that's what private security is for.
The outrageous thing here is that public money is being used to fund it. They have the proceeds from selling off lucrative real estate on stolen land - why don't they pay for it themselves?
(ignore previous comment, replied to wrong person)
Bro why them specifically aren’t the local cops bad enough?
Cops are, ostensibly public security guards. their jobs aren't to protect private property. That's what private security guards are for. (aka contract security).
There are times where the police will allow you to hire an off-duty cop to come and do cop-things on your property as a way to earn some extra funds. (the cops get overtime pay, the department gets a cut.) It includes things like traffic direction and sitting in their cars watching drunks come out of bars (hoping that the drunks notice and don't start shit. works half the time, if we're being honest.)
Also cops make extremely shitty security guards. (experience says that cops tend to pick fights instead of using soft skills.). I suspect these guys are going to be much worse.... and I hadn't thought that was possible.
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