0 The Burger Bobbies: Hard-up police force patrols streets with McDonald's marshals to beat crime

19th November 2010

McDonald’s is helping to pay for a team of police officers and civilians to patrol the streets of a city centre at night.

The ‘street marshals’ are being funded entirely by local businesses, including the fast food chain, to try to control alcohol-fuelled violence.

Critics, however, fear the scheme is another potentially dangerous example of ordinary citizens being used to replace police officers to save money.

Ready to tackle "hamburglers"

  While towns across the country use street marshals or ‘angels’ to patrol on busy Friday and Saturday nights, the scheme in Leeds is the first totally funded by private businesses.

West Yorkshire Police insists all the marshals are ‘licensed and professional’ door staff whose job involves controlling troublemakers anyway. 

 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330885/Police-patrol-Leeds-streets-McDonalds-marshals-beat-crime.html#ixzz15pb3RPDU
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MMmmmm...yes privately funded police forces....that's a great money saving idea. ;o)