Yesterday, the Police Foundation published their Strategic Review of Policing in England & Wales. Three years in the making, the report examines policing past, present and future and makes a lengthy series of recommendations about where we need to go from here. The reaction to the launch on social media was predictably mixed – and I wanted to take a few moments of your time to offer a brief series of my own initial reflections on what I’ve read.
The first thing to say is that I think much of the content of the report is bang on. The world is changing beyond all recognition – demographically, socially, environmentally, technologically – and there is an overwhelming need for policing to keep up with the times. Among the headline analysis and recommendations in the report, I would wholeheartedly endorse the following:
- The need for a “radical shift to a more systemic preventative approach” to crime (one that is both public-health based and trauma-informed)
- The recognition that the responsibility for crime prevention...
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