West Mercia Police's cadet drive (From Hereford Times)

As lovely and noble as this sounds it is a pointless gimmick that will have no impact upon Policing in our area and it'll come at a cost.
These kids will not be allowed on the streets without supervision from an Officer and they will not be placed in harms way which means we pay for their uniform, their pointless training and the salary of the Officers who are called upon to babysit.
The West Mercia are no different to other public services wasting our time and money on pointless areas of business that you and I couldn't care less about.
Before the economic crash the West Mercia corporate aim and logo read, 4000+. This was their aim and ambition. To employ, at our cost four thousand employees. And they did. Very quickly they met this target that we are now paying for and now, in the Police, there are hundreds of staff doing things that are pointless, have no impact upon you and I and they were put there simply to please New Labour and their thirst to create a huge public sector that we now serve.
But, back to this scheme! A complete waste of time and you can be sure of one thing. Someone within will be tasked and paid to Manage this wasteful project.

And I aint finished yet. Bloody Self Defence Training!
Why in Gods name of they even considering training these kids to wrestle me to the ground, apply some pressure point and render me incapable of battling on in my zeal to get home to watch Wrestlemania?
Its bloody madness. And what happens when one of these kids gets injured whilst being subjected to some inevitable force relating to their training? Yes! A winner. They'll sue the Police for their injury, they'll get compensation and then they'll be criticised for coming up with the idea in the first place. And who pays? Yes, bloody us! The cash cows that keep on forking out for gimmicks and poor decisions.
Its madness and someone should think this stupid idea through quickly before they all mget fitted up for their uniforms.

As a police recruitment drive, I can see the validity, but it still seems a bit odd.
Do they struggle to recruit?
What will they do when they visit elderly and vulnerable care homes?
What public safety advice will they deliver and who will take advice from a spotty 16 year old Herbert??
They should all have to do National Service..

Well once again bobby47 has it right.!!!!.they dont have any probs recruiting.What worries me is that no doubt before long there will be a P.C incharge of this then a sergant to keep an eye onthe P.c then inspector to keep eye on sergant and so the gravy train goes on.From what I read Worc/Telford do this also and maybe Shropshire, so before u can GRAVYTRAIN, there are lets say 10 police officers off front line. I will be writing to my PCC Aas he is asking for an increase in WEST MERCIAs percept BUGGER OFF BILL I say police have got plenty of it and our wasting it on things like this. They are not social workers