'We're on LIFE SUPPORT!' UK facing 'TSUNAMI' of crime after policeman warning IGNORED
THE UK crime rate has skyrocketed after officials failed to react to police warnings about growing violent crime across the country, former PC Norman Brennan claimed.
The retired police officer claimed he warned the Government of a "perfect storm" of crime threatening the country before Britain begun to record an unprecedented number of knife and gun crimes.
There have been 66 murders in London alone since the beginning of the year, with police figures registering a 22 percent spike in knife crime and an 11 percent rise in gun crime across Britain.
Mr Brennan told talkRADIO: "Nobody was listening, nobody was acting, everyone was talking.
"Here we are now, the storm has hit Britain and in particular London we are now facing the effects of the tsunami.
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"If I was to describe the overview in medical terms – I’ve already described it over the last five years, nobody listened and if they did they didn’t act – we are on life support: I’m telling you the family are around the bed."
The number of murders using a blade was up from 209 in 2017 – a 26 percent increase. There were 385 attempted murders, 16,229 robberies, 448 rapes and 191 sexual assaults.
The majority of knife crimes were assaults, which totalled 19,213. Almost every police force saw a spike in knife crime and possession of a knife was up by around a third.
Mr Brennan also said he had warned the public about the risks of uncontrolled knife possession in 2004 but his campaigns did not spark a reaction.
We are on life support: I’m telling you the family are around the bed.
He continued: "I held a press conference and in full uniform, risking my career I gave an idea, an outline of what’s going to happen if we don’t get a grip on knife crime.
"Here we are all these years later on talking about all the things that I predicted.
"The caveat to what I just said is that Theresa May turned up at the Police Federation Conference and she accused the Federation that represents the whole police service of crying wolf."
In 2015 then-Home Secretary May told policemen to stop "crying wolf" over cuts to funding saying: "I have to tell you that this kind of scaremongering does nobody any good - it doesn't serve you, it doesn't serve the officers you represent, and it doesn't serve the public."