Too many police chiefs? - A review of police strength and costs in England & Wales 2010
BACKGROUND - POLICE CHIEFS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Frequently voiced concerns about Senior Police Chiefs are that they:-
• Earn excessive salaries – approximately 5 or 6 times the national average wage, many earn more than the Prime Minister • Are paid scandalously high performance target bonuses, often linked to decreases in crime • Are proportionately too large as a group, draining essential front line resource funding with scandalous bonuses & perks • Knowingly manipulate or condone the fiddling of crime & detection figures on which these outrageous bonuses depend • Secretly pocket bonuses and perks, such as private health care and car allowances worth tens of thousands of pounds • Direct street-duty officers to concentrate on higher volume ‘advantageous’ misdemeanors where a detection is certain • In doing so, they divert front line attention from more urgent calls for assistance to the public • Pay lip-service to what the public really want , blaming front liners when their latest schemes and fad projects fail to deliver • Suck-up to their political masters by concentrating too heavily on diversity issues and crimes • Are too politically influenced and immersed to provide an independent police service for the public • Complain about being "politicised", yet make statements intended to support this government policy or undermine that one • Can be found at Home Office press conferences and their comments are often helpfully attached to government press releases • Flood the streets with PCSO’s – a cheaper option than fully empowered police constables • Are profligate and wasteful with public funds, wasting millions on projects & benefits for senior officers (ACPO & NPIA) • Are financially incentivized and motivated to the detriment of the public interest and grass roots policing • Maintain an unhealthy degree of secrecy about matters of public interest • Dictate national policing policies via their unaccountable private clubs – ACPO and the NPIA • Have, by their conduct replaced the honour and distinction of achieving a high rank in public service with greed • As a group, lack consistency and vision with their policies and strategies, losing respect with grass roots officers • Are totally out of touch with the needs of the public and oblivious to the concerns of front line officers
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