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They do a good job in the sense that they do what they're told to do - make easy arrests with minimal paper work. They're completely bound by bureaucratic nonsense, to the point where they can't really be arsed doing anything properly. The ASBO is just a name slapped onto all the pointless police work they do that isn't catching the rapists, murderers and gangs of this country. I nearly got a police caution because I was speaking to people who had booze on them in public. Yeah, I wasn't drinking, neither were they (although obviously were going to) and it took some serious pleading to get them to not take my details. Then, when my younger brother got mugged on the streets, how long did it take for them to get to our house? Over an hour. Did they manage to do anything about it? They did not.

They're not miracle workers, but it'd be nice if they tried.