‘Catastrophic’ College of Policing ‘Should Be Replaced’: Report

‘Catastrophic’ College of Policing ‘Should Be Replaced’: Report
The rainbow flag on a police officer during Pride in London on July 6, 2019. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images for Pride in London
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Britain’s next prime minister needs to implement a series of targeted reforms as the public believe that the police are “more interested in being woke than solving crimes,” a report has urged.

The report by the conservative think tank Policy Exchange (pdf), written by former Metropolitan Police officer David Spencer, said that said police should avoid behaviour such as “taking the knee,” which can “easily be interpreted by others as an expression of a partisan political view.”
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