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The Case Against ACPO - A Critical Look At The Association Of Chief Police Officers


the public or frontline staff no say in our governance. This is of course, the opposite of democracy, but hey, we're ok and we can spin the media anything. 16. The 349 ACPO ranks could be cut by two thirds and save upwards of £20million for the tax payer without any discernable effect on policing. 17. The £125million in cuts announced by Nick Herbert is perfectly achievable. We can deliver them with no impact on the frontline. We can reduce PCSO numbers by 4,263 (26%) save £125,017,200 or reduce civilian staff by 3,764 (4.58%) save £125,079,800 or improve our non staff purchasing, reducing it by 4.66% saving £125,008,020 18. If we admitted that we’ve been poor at managing our resources, we could take massive leaps forward by releasing thousands of desk bound officers back to frontline policing at no extra cost to the tax payer. 19. Frontline response is more important than any other area. We should spend one full week every month on a real shift with Inspectors, Sergeants & PC’s, doing the job with them, to see how we can get back in touch with what they need to do the job. 20. Saving the best till last and to finally display how out of step we really are, we’ll have a slap up “jolly” this week at our annual ACPO bash. We’ll present the worlds media with a line that 28,000 police face the axe because of the cuts but hey, who cares? We’ll still blow half a million quid on our three day bash. We’ll tell ‘em it’s all paid for by sponsorship and delegate fees, that will make it alright won’t it? The Daily Mail have let our cat out of the bag at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289878/As-28-000-police-face-axe-chiefs- blow-500k-champagne-gala.html#ixzz0s2CE5fwM


So, a couple of hundred ACPO "Nero's" fiddle whilst British Policing soldiers on without them.


When will these guys wake up? Certainly not before they've had their jolly that's for sure. Have a read:-


Britain’s top police officers will spend half-a-million pounds of taxpayers’ cash on luxury hotels and a champagne gala just days after the Government ordered savage police budget cuts. The huge outlay is for the annual conference of the UK’s most powerful policing body, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).


Chief Constables and senior officers will be treated to champagne and strawberries dipped in chocolate at the three-day affair.


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