The Case Against ACPO - A Critical Look At The Association Of Chief Police Officers 20 THINGS YOU WON’T HEAR FROM ACPO
S U N D A Y , 2 7 J UN E 2 0 1 0 20 THINGS YOU WONT HEAR AT ACPO THIS WEEK
1. Elected commissioners are the best thing since sliced bread 2. It’s time everyone knew how much of a fiddle our bonus is. We’ve tried to cover our tracks in the media by saying we don’t want them now the Conservatives are in power. We should have refused them point blank six years ago, but instead we jumped on the gravy train. 3. Let’s cut the barmy ideas & get back to basic common sense policing 4. There are too many ranks above Chief inspector, lets chop some 5. We are mainly responsible for the bureaucracy, the more layers we create, the more valuable it makes us appear. Muck only rolls downhill. 6. We’re paid so much it’s embarrassing, please pay us less 7. The APA, ACPO & the NPIA are jobs for the boys that serve little value & waste millions of public money 8. We should be completely transparent and accountable 9. We’ve all been fiddling crime statistics & detections for so long, we’ve forgotten how to do it legitimately 10. We’re massively top heavy with civilian staff, we can manage with a fraction of what we do & police officers could do most of the jobs better anyway 11. Merging forces would mean fewer senior officers, it would save millions and provide a better service to the public 12. The performance targets brought in by the last Government were ill conceived but they allowed us to construct our bureaucratic empires rather than democratic forces 13. We’ve been guilty of forcing flavor of the month projects on the frontline without asking if they thought they had any merit. Then, when projects failed, we blamed them, introduced others, frequently contradicting the purpose of the failed projects. 14. Receiving £18 million a year from the Home Office, we, the officers of ACPO admit to publicly and privately lobbying against key Conservative issues, going far beyond our role. Despite claiming to be independent, acting in the public interest, we displayed political preference by showing almost no criticism of the Labour administration. 15. We have encouraged ACPO to become a self-perpetuating oligarchy where our members achieve their leadership through selection from within the already established members. Therefore, an oligarchy is actually a form of shared dictatorship in which the people, be that
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