Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Trust in UK police 'severely shaken' by corruption...

Public trust in the police has been severely shaken by recent corruption scandals, a major report warned yesterday.

In a worrying assessment, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary Tom Winsor said the public felt badly let down by the failure of officers to live up to expected standards of integrity.

The Stephen Lawrence investigation, Hillsborough, Plebgate, revelations about undercover officers, the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 riots and other recent controversies have, he said, left the police damaged – despite ordinary bobbies being more honest than they were in the 1960s and 1970s.

In his 163-page assessment of the State of Policing in England and Wales, Mr Winsor concludes forces are:

Failing properly to investigate home break-ins, domestic abuse and car crime;
Ill-prepared and ill-equipped to deal with new types of crime such as online fraud;
Leaving officers with primitive technology more than a decade old;
Mired in inefficiency and unnecessary bureaucracy.


But it is his conclusions around public trust in the police which will raise the most concern. Full story...

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