Unit 3 citizenship & diversity task 4
Three out of four male prisons accommodate over double the amount of inmates they are designed to hold, in fact most inmates have to double up, which means that two people have to share a one man cell (6ftx10ft) with an unscreened toilet at the end of the bunk beds, they also receive minimal ventilation. The most over-crowded prison in the UK is the Armley prison in Leeds; it is meant to hold 669 prisoners but currently contains 1218 inmates, because of the inmates being crowded it is causing multiple problems, the first of which is that last year alone there was 84 suicides in prison which was confirmed by the ministry of justice, the second problem is that the inmates are rioting causing havoc for the prison officers fearing for their lives and also causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to the prisons, thirdly because of the first two problems the media misinterpret this causing the public opinions on prison officers to be overwhelmingly negative, because of this less of the public will want to become a prison officer causing the prison staff to be lower than it should be.
Because of the recent terror attacks in Paris a lot of countries have been on high alert of terror attacks, especially Britain, civilians are petrified of these “inevitable” attacks and because of this it is causing the public to become racist towards the Muslim population of this country thinking it was these ordinary British civilians that committed these atrocities, there has been many incidences of white brits attacking (verbally and physically) Muslim brits, recently there was an incident on the underground in London where a white male was verbally abusing a young Muslim woman, the woman was defenceless and could easily have been physically attacked luckily the other passengers sided with the young girl, they threw the racist attacker out of the train when it came to a halt.
In a completely unexpected turnaround from George Osbourne has meant that the police will not face any cuts, which was the complete opposite from what the general public thought was coming, as he previously stated there would be a 20% cut to police funded, however he seemed to have changed his mind stating “the police protect us, we shall protect the police”. It also seems that the cuts to benefits will no longer be happening either as he stated that low income families would lose an estimated £1300 a year which would be incredibly hard for the families to cope with.
The media reports on incidents and operations that the Public Services are a part of and they can portray the services how they want citizens of society to see them. They can do this by editing film footage and using clips in a specific order to show citizens if they think the Public Services are doing the right thing or to present them doing something in retaliation to another incident when the two incidents were completely unrelated.

How The Media Reports Members of the media are not only members of the public; they can influence the way the Metropolitan Police Service is portrayed. It is important that we build good relationships with them, even when the circumstances are difficult. They have a duty to report many of those things that we have to deal with - crime, demonstrations, accidents, major events and incidents. The media have the duty to carry out anything necessary for them to do their work. For example, if a scene has been cordoned, the Police will have to give the media a good vantage point for them to collect the information they need. In some cases, if the Public Services do miss treat the media, the information gathered can be edited so certain parts of film footage and images can be shown is a certain sequence to portray the services as a negative source of assistance.

Statutory and Non-Statutory agencies are provided to citizens to assist them in when they are in a state of emergency or distress. They show this support by saving lives, finding missing persons and protecting. Both agencies together provide efficient and safe service to all citizens. In many circumstances both agencies will be required to work together, this requires good teamwork and communication skills as they do not usually have to use each other’s services. An example of where Statutory and Non-Statutory agencies must work together would be if someone was stranded in the mountains without any help, this requires multiple services to work together at once to resolve a serious situation effectively and efficiently.

For example: A mountain rescue mission would require the Non-Statutory agency Mountain Rescue and the statutory agency, the Royal Air Force. In this situation, the Mountain Rescue team have the necessary skills to search and coordinate aircraft that have to find the stranded person. The RAF would be required to use their search and rescue aircrafts to locate the person with the assistance of Mountain Rescue coordinating them.

Each service alone provides a high quality of service to citizens; however, when they need to work together the service becomes even better and the combined skills allow the situation to be resumed as normal in a short space of time. To resolve this situation, both agencies must be aware of what is happening so they can assess and risk assess the situation and prepare the appropriate equipment for the task ahead.