Policing is now on the election agenda but it says little for politicians that it has taken loss of life via terror attacks together with knife and gun crime to get it there.“
What a difference in four years makes. In 2015, just before the General Election, more than 1,000 serving and retired police officers signed a letter which demanded that policing be placed on the election agenda. There was, quite simply, virtually no mention of policing during that campaign and regrettably the letter made little difference despite the obvious visible damage being caused by the cuts and the hostility shown towards police by Home Secretary Theresa May.
- CHRIS HOBBS
- Intelligence and Policing
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