Britain’s next prime minister needs to implement a series of targeted reforms as the public believe that the police are “more interested in being woke than solving crimes,” a report has urged.
The report by the conservative think tank Policy Exchange (pdf), written by former Metropolitan Police officer David Spencer, said that said police should avoid behaviour such as “taking the knee,” which can “easily be interpreted by others as an expression of a partisan political view.”
Former police officers who have been outspoken against ideological capture in the force told The Epoch Times that they welcomed the report.
Police officers on duty in the United Kingdom on Sept. 17, 2017. (Peter Nicholls/Reuters)
Ideological Capture
Spencer said that “British policing has lost its way” but that his paper “proposes a policy programme for turning round British policing, making our communities safer and preparing to tackle the crime threats of the future.”…