Leaders of the FBU, the Fire Brigades Union, are increasingly concerned at the growth in attacks on firefighters while they are engaged on duties. Indeed, the general secretary of the union described the attacks as "recreational activity with very serious consequences."
The seriousness is shown not only in the words expressed by FBU leaders, but in the fact that some crews are now supplied out with "spit kits" to collect DNA of offenders and also CCTV units are fitted to engines.
How strange then that at a time when the FBU is reporting increased attacks, 1,500 assaults in 2007, compared with 1,300 in 2006, the Government is quoting a fall from 1,300 to 400.
They have the same starting point, 1,300 in 2006, but very different figures for 2007. The FBU are reporting an increase of 15%, while the Government are insisting there was a decrease of 68%.
The two sets of figures differ by such an extent that one side must have changed the figures, or categories of figures, for some reason of their own.
Who would you suspect is manipulating the figures? I know what I think!
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