IPPR calls for National Policing Agency
Existing national police organisations and their IT systems should be transferred to a new body, according to a report. The National Policing Agency would be created by merging the National Policing Improvement Agency and those parts of the Association of Chief Police Officers that currently coordinate or deliver national …
If you phone the police they just give you a crime number and tell you to go away.
I fail to see how providing more avenues for them to ignore you is going to make any difference.
Crimes against the person..... very low priority
Crimes against the Man/Establishment/Big Business... very high priority.
Somethings wrong here. Don't we pay their wages
Anon obviously. I'm just going to Vote!
Will you?.......
"Rick Muir, a senior research fellow at IPPR and author of the report, said: "Unless the way the police are organised and governed is transformed, any substantive programme of reform will suffer the same fate as those that preceded it: opposition within different parts of the service followed by a government 'U-turn' for fear of a politically costly conflict with the police."
So the First Reform should in fact be, come down on the cops like a ton of bricks, reminding them who they're bosses are, who they work for and that with power comes not only responsibility but more importantly, accountability. The situation should never be such that the police so strongly resist the orders haded DOWN to them by the electorate*, their job is not to question but simply obey and the sooner the police figure that out the sooner the public's faith in them will be restored.
Oh, and some real police work rather than this "Throw the book at 'im and see what sticks" approach please!
* - I'm well aware of the naivety of that statement but it is technically true, a bit, maybe....
The increasing distance between public servants and the public they serve is the problem here. In the case of the police they have become increasingly centralised and increasingly remote. Fifty years ago there was a police house in every village and policeman in every village. Now, my town of 30,000 doesn't even have a permanent police presence. The station is closed at night, because, of course, no crime ever happens at night, does it? Officers have to come from 9 miles away.
A centralised police computer system (another massive public sector IT project, of course) isn't going to resolve the core problem with policing which in my opinion is that police are too far divorced from the communities they are supposed to serve.
This IPPR report is par for the course for them, unfortunately. New Labour apparatchiks to a man and woman (and, of course, funded by generous donations from the willing taxpayer), they believe that greater control over the public services will improve the quality of those services. Of course, the more they tighten their grip, the more services will slip through their fingers...
Where's the problem? The public walk down the road, or get on a tube train, or sit quietly at home, and the police shoot them. That's communication for you!
"If you phone the police they just give you a crime number and tell you to go away."
They tried to charge my boyfriend for wasting police time when he reporting a street robbery but declined to go back to the very spot at stupid o'clock.
Whatever new agency they set up, can it be one that prosecutes police officers et alia when they break the law, or attempt to break the law? No Officer, I don't have to give you my name and address, so fuck off.
