So yeah ACAB obviously: There is no need for a police service, without one a network of workers community circles would spontaneously resolve all issues by debate and discussion ...Whilst we are waiting.
A long time coming. It's 25% of all UK police - even with losing the national CT role. Most commentators would say it's far too big, but how an earth you would divide up the Great Wen god only knows.
I wonder who they parachute in and where. It's not like the other big metropolitan forces have covered themselves with glory recently. Police Scotland are only just dragging themselves out of the sigma change drop of the amalgamation.
If a load of county mounty superintendents and NPCC turn up, without significant, backing for cultural change, organisational change which means resources, they are going to have a mountain to climb.
There hasn't been a Royal Commission into policing for a life time - and the last one was fudged leaving us with the mish-mash of metropolitans, regional and small county forces. No chief or home secretary has wanted to give up their power to one and so we have had decades of tinkering around the edges. I think the Federation and Supers' association still have the call for a RC as policy, not sure about Unison.
Any sane and rationale government would take this decision as the jumping of point for a full in depth review of policing, and wider community safety, violence reduction, mental ill health intervention and other responses across GB.
So expect a couple of shit headline grabbing proposals made up by a 25 year old Tory policy wonk who has never been outside the Home Counties...
It's a mess across the UK. Especially as in many places old bill are the last remaining part of the state that actually still makes interventions in any meaningful way. Just pity rozzers get almost no training in 75% of what they do now...
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