Free the police to tackle the criminals on Britain's streets

Free the police to tackle the criminals on Britain's streets - Telegraph

A view purporting to be from inside the police...and maybe it is! The front line have long considered the upper leadership to be idiots. Like all post-NuLabour public services they also look aghast at the ever-increasing number of "support staff" who seem expert at making work for themselves rather than supporting the objectives of the sharp end. The noises that your blogger hears more recently, however, suggest total disenchantment with sergeant rank too.

Breaking the tick-box mentality...can it be done? Elected police commissioners are utterly irrelevant to the problem. But they are relevant to other problems, like public accountability and legitimacy. No public support, no crime reporting, no evidence, no witnesses, no-one to give evidence in court. Lots to do and no money to do it with.