Bye Bye ACPO you will not be missed.
Discussion
Despite the tone of my OP I'm a little bit torn on this.
I will mourn not one second for getting rid of all the limited company malarkey. It always seemed wrong and inappropriate.
Clearly there needs to be someone to do the ACPO role which was through guidelines :cough: get some uniformity throughout the nation. That has to be a good thing frankly.
Who can do this in future. PCCs? nah, rolls about on floor holding sides.
Home Office is the next other possibility, but need continuity and independence regardless of governmental changes.
So the only place to go is the very first recommendation of the review which was a Chief Constable's council to co-ordinate policy etc. Which sort of leads one back to thinking it would make sense to have an individual lead officer responsible for particular topics. Which sort of leads one back to ACPO rev 2 without all the limited company b-s.
What we may get is what we so often get when new govts come to power and start meddling. This organisation XYZ is no good / failing / not doing as it's told so we will close it down, reintroduce our new reinvented organisation xYz but with more political control. Many examples can be immediately brought to mind.
I will mourn not one second for getting rid of all the limited company malarkey. It always seemed wrong and inappropriate.
Clearly there needs to be someone to do the ACPO role which was through guidelines :cough: get some uniformity throughout the nation. That has to be a good thing frankly.
Who can do this in future. PCCs? nah, rolls about on floor holding sides.
Home Office is the next other possibility, but need continuity and independence regardless of governmental changes.
So the only place to go is the very first recommendation of the review which was a Chief Constable's council to co-ordinate policy etc. Which sort of leads one back to thinking it would make sense to have an individual lead officer responsible for particular topics. Which sort of leads one back to ACPO rev 2 without all the limited company b-s.
What we may get is what we so often get when new govts come to power and start meddling. This organisation XYZ is no good / failing / not doing as it's told so we will close it down, reintroduce our new reinvented organisation xYz but with more political control. Many examples can be immediately brought to mind.
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