Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss said on Wednesday that if she becomes the prime minister, she will set a target for the police, telling them to cut serious crime by 20 percent.
She also vowed to publish police league tables and have underperforming force leaders explain “how they will turn things around.”
Writing in the Daily Express,” Truss said it’s “now time for the police to get back to basics and spend their time investigating real crimes—murder, burglary, and serious violence, not Twitter rows and hurt feelings.”
But Truss’s announcement was dismissed by her opponent Rishi Sunak as a “lightweight plan” and a “power grab.”…