I joined the police in 1982. For the last 44 years I have closely followed the development of UK policing. I have seen policing in England and Wales restructured, rebadged, centralized, regionalized, and then centralized again.
Each iteration has promised to “free up local policing,” modernizing the response to serious crime, and
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