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Where Are All The Police? – An Analysis of Police Resources


One detective, who declined to be named, said: "Name any crime and I'll tell you how it can be fiddled."


Simon Reed, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, which represents front line officers, said: "This research demonstrates that senior officers are directing and controlling widespread manipulation of crime figures. The public are misled, politicians can claim crime is falling and chief officers are rewarded with performance-related bonuses."


Denis O'Connor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, published an official report into the way police record violent crime and admitted the figures may be skewed by "perverse incentives" around government performance targets. Dr Patrick found that watchdogs such as Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and the Police Standards Unit had a "general tendency to underplay the scale and nature" of gaming.


HMIC have failed to tackle the problem. There are no examples of chief police officers being publicly criticised by inspectors for this type of crime figure manipulation. Instead, HMIC tended privately to refer examples of widespread gaming to the Home Secretary or the police authority rather than "hold the chief constable to account" because of the risk of political embarrassment.


HMIC inspectors should be made accountable to Parliament rather than the Home Office, and should be drawn from other professions rather than solely from senior police ranks.


5. OPERATIONAL PRIORITIES. Refocus the priorities of policing back to the Peelian principles, the main emphasis should always be the protection of life and property, the prevention and detection of crime. Anything else is a distraction.


Sir Robert Peel, the founder of modern policing, laid down the 9 Peelian Principles below and they still make remarkable sense. If applied, they would restore the currently tarnished honour of the Police Force. Unless we, the public, demand that policing follows these fundamental principles, there is no sign that Senior Officers will repair the relationship between the Police and the Public. The 9 Peelian Principles are:


1. The Police’s basic mission is to prevent crime and disorder. 2. The ability of the police to perform their duties depends on public approval. 3. Police need the willing co-operation of the public in obeying laws.


4. The willing co-operation of the public diminishes proportionately to the police need to use physical force.


5. Police earn public respect not by catering to public or political opinion, or self-interest, but by demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.


6. Police should use physical force to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is not sufficient.


7. Police should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police are members of the public who are paid for duties which every citizen would do in the interests of community welfare.


8. Police should always work to prevent crime and disorder, and never take the powers of the judiciary.


9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder.


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