Police red tape

Just remind me which bunch of centralising bureaucratic statist pillocks have been in government for the last nearly 11 years and have handicapped the police with forem-filling and red-tape.

Today I read on the BBC that "Sir Ronnie Flanagan's year-long review will say up to six million police hours a week are wasted on bureaucracy. A leaked version seen by the BBC also says police forces target less serious crimes to boost performance figures."

So Ronnie Flanagan will say that the police "target less serious crimes to boost performance figures." Isn't that we "right of centre" bloggers and commentators have been saying for some time and government ministers have always denied?


"He will call for a shift in priorities and perspective, including an end to the lengthy form officers have to fill in whenever they stop someone for questioning - which would be replaced by a business card."

Just remind me who introduced this "stop and account" form? Was it by any chance one of the slew of useless Labour Home Secretaries that we have been inflicted with over the last 11 years. Hasn't the leader of an opposition party recently been calling for these forms to be withdrawn? Maybe this will be another opportunity for this intellectually bankrupt government to steal another Conservative policy.