Stories categorized “Policing”:

The plan to end all plans

Published June 2003. No comments... »

The National Policing Plan runs to fifty six pages and requires all forty three police forces in England and Wales to produce three-year plans which incorporate ten Public Service Agreements with seventeen key performance indicators; four strategic priorities with ten core actions, seventeen local actions and nineteen more key peformance indicators; six performance domains with twenty one Best Value Performance Indicators; and three reform-priority areas with fifty one local planning points.

System failure: How to lose the fight for law and order

Published June 2003. No comments... »

Right there. That’s where they got the Yardie guy. He was in that pub, the Jolly Roger, over on the corner of All Hallows Road and, although it’s dark now and our van is racing, we can still catch a glimpse of the lamplit pavement where he lay with his blood pooling over the kerb and onto the tarmac street.

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