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David P's avatar

It remains a mystery to me how the Conservative Party, especially at the "grassroots", accepted the metropolitan elite view of policing as the last unreformed public institution and simply said nowt. I would include the many local councillors and others, yes, even those were elected to be a PCC. First, it was reform and then cuts to funding. My own local police had to "save" £27million this year. Will anyone say loudly what should we stop doing then Home Secretary etc?

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Geoff Molloy's avatar

Spot on as ever Dom. The crisis in policing, as you say, has been brought on from 1989 onwards, slowly gathering speed as the Job we all loved careered, increasingly out of control, downhill, until the inevitable point of no return, when everything crashes and burns. The police have lost the support of politicians from all sides, police management (sic) is a joke, the IOPC shine a bright light into already lit corners and pillory the boys and girls on the street for doing their job. Unless and until the Government of the day says 'enough is enough' (unlikely, I know) the public will continue to get the service they are granted, not what they need.

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