A review of the future of policing is expected to say that many police duties would be performed better by civilians.
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Sweeping changes to bureaucracy which could save millions of police hours a year are expected in the the long-awaited paper by Home Office policing adviser Sir Ronnie Flanagan.
The report is said to suggest that only 10% of policing tasks require fully-trained officers, and duties such as taking statements could be carried out “more effectively” by civilians.
Former chief constable Sir Ronnie is also expected to recommend scrapping a form that police must fill in every time they stop someone in the street.
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by changing the role of the police force into only dealing with confrontation, we risk turning this force into a paramilitary organisation. this is an extremely clever method of creating, in part, a new form of fascism. an ideology based upon state violence and fear of the same. although i agree with removing levels of bureacracy within the police force, it is interesting that the government wishes to discard that one piece of evidence, which exists detailing an arrest. security over freedom. the government says that we live in dangerous times. but throughout human history, when has it ever been safe? the government is using the threat of violence from enemies within and outside of this country to gradually remove our civil liberties. mark my words my friends, unless we stand up and say “NO” very soon, the people we look to for leadership are going to have us by the balls and then who are we going to turn rto?