Withdraw public consent from the current model of policing

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Government guidelines state that consent to policing cannot be withdrawn individually. Therefore, we want to collectively withdraw consent to the current model of policing and request that the 80% (the amount of non-crimes the police respond to) of police funding be redistributed into communities.

We want the government to redistribute police funding to youth, education, social and health services that have been proven to reduce crime by meeting people’s basic needs. We want communities to be given the power to respond to the 80% of non-criminal incidents that the police respond to; as we believe that a community response rooted in resolution and meeting individual needs would have better outcomes. Finally, we want autonomous community-based police scrutiny panels established.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We understand you are concerned about policing, however it's not clear what practical effect you want this 'withdrawal of public consent' to have. It's also not clear who you want to sit on 'community based police scrutiny panels' nor what powers you want such panels to have.

You could have a petition calling on the Government to reduce police funding by 80% and for that funding to be made available instead to specific community services, so long as it was clear what those services are.

You might like to sign this petition which calls for a similar action:

Reduce police funding by £1 billion per year and fund crime prevention instead: Reduce police funding by £1 billion per year and fund crime prevention instead

Timeline

19 Apr 2022	Petition opened for signatures
22 Apr 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Apr 2022

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