Category: Police

The police are the public, and the public are the police. The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it

HMIC tells ACPO to get a grip!

~ Dave Hasney ~ 2 Comments

In my previous post on the matter of the forthcoming police budget cuts, I noted that the president of ACPO was forecasting loss of police officers. It was nice to see Sir Denis O’Connor (the HMIC and a real ‘copper’s copper’) has told ACPO in his speech at their annual conference to stop their mollycoddling risk aversion methodology. And allow officers to make decisions without any witch-hunt blame culture…

HMIC: “The public want to see the police, and leaders must stand by those who have to make tough decisions on the information they have and allow reasonable mistakes to be made without a witch-hunt”. (BBC News)