Police use their voices to 'fight crime'.

An English police 'force' is planning to equip it's officers with loudhailers and an ingenious plan to reduce burglaries.

Officers will wander up and down residential streets calling 'close your doors and windows, keep burglars out'. They have also been told to enter any properties with open doors and lecture (the police call it 'giving advice') householders, even those who are found to be asleep!

So it's true then that it isn't safe not to live in a locked and bolted house. But I thought the fear of crime was worse than the reality? Are the police not fuelling a fear of burglaries?

It's also interesting that the police seem to think that shouting at the law abiding majority is now somehow part of their job.