Political correctness is undermining effective policing.

Police 'target forms, not criminality' - Sunday Telegraph

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"An award-winning police inspector has lambasted Government targets, paperwork and political correctness for undermining the war on crime.

Insp Mark Scoular spoke out after returning to the Metropolitan Police Force following a five-year break. He said: "I am horrified at the state of policing."

Insp Scoular condemned target-setting which has resulted in some officers being ordered to achieve particular numbers of "sanction detections". Officers have privately told this newspaper that the targets encourage them to hunt low-level offenders who carry cannabis or urinate in public, instead of pursuing more serious criminals.

Insp Scoular said: "We no longer target criminality, we target how many stop-and-account forms we get during a shift. We no longer target drugs suppliers, we target the hundreds of users." He said the policy "results in even fewer police officers delivering frontline policing", adding: "I fail to see how, with current key performance indicators, we are doing anything but fudging the real picture. Officers spend more time doing paperwork than they do policing."

On training, Insp Scoular, who is based at an inner-London police station, said most new police officers "just do not know the job" because practical lessons have been replaced by politically correct themes such as diversity awareness."


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