Lord Tebbit, the former minister and Conservative party chairman, will face a formal police inquiry after a fracas with Chinese New Year revellers in his new home town of Bury St Edmunds, it emerged today.Yup. it's the dragon incident.
Even Hugh Muir can't see the wisdom in ACPO firing a shot across the bows of ACPO's soon-to-be new overlords:
There is a legal dance to be played out now, thus we cannot say too much. But it does seem pertinent to point out that many Tories are already preparing to give the chief constables a kicking come May, because they regard the fraternity as a hotbed of lefties. That's risible, of course; the top cops are a law unto themselves. But it is going to be hard to persuade new ministers of the futility of vengeance. How is giving Norman the third degree going to help?Do ACPO feel untouchable?
Well, so dsid Al Capone. And look what happened to him...
Elected Chief Constables please.
ReplyDeletePlus make common purpose membership public.
ACO has got in before me. Spot-on. Anybody above the rank of inspector should have a hard look taken at them.
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ReplyDeleteFrom reading the "Inspector Gadget" blog I'd venture to suggest that the best thing to do with the police would be to sack everyone ranked higher than "Chief Inspector" then arrange to elect local "sheriffs" to keep an eye on what's left". If "Gadget" is to be believed (and the comments on his blog from other serving officers seem to reinforce his view) once someone reaches the exalted rank of "Superintendant" they instantly stop being a policeman and turn into a politically-correct PR consultant.
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ReplyDeleteAgreed. But first you'd have to educate the public on what that meant. A tall order, for the 'X Factor' generation...
"If "Gadget" is to be believed (and the comments on his blog from other serving officers seem to reinforce his view) once someone reaches the exalted rank of "Superintendant" they instantly stop being a policeman and turn into a politically-correct PR consultant."
As long as that's seen as a way to climb the ladder, that will continue, but I can't see the opposition changing much of anything...
AntiCitizenOne said...
ReplyDeleteElected Chief Constables please.
And why would elected CCs be any better than the scum you already get to elect in local councils and Parliament?
I thought anyone writing here would have learned that by now.