Comments on: Too many coppers, not enough pounds http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/10/31/too-many-coppers-not-enough-pounds/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Puttick http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/10/31/too-many-coppers-not-enough-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-11385 Chris Puttick Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:24:21 +0000 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/?p=48677#comment-11385 I’d be very surprised to learn that savings are realised by amalgamating police forces. Unless they’ve all got way too much bureaucracy in place and part of the amalgamation would be to reduce that level of bureaucracy. Which hardly seems likely.

Projected savings in making the Scottish FBI are just that, projected. How anyone can believe they can have one police force with one dominant set of objectives and still effectively serve say, for example, both Easterhouse and Thurso, is beyond me.

]]> By: Jonathan Walker http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/10/31/too-many-coppers-not-enough-pounds/comment-page-1/#comment-11384 Jonathan Walker Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:19:35 +0000 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/?p=48677#comment-11384 I’m not sure why Hugh Orde claims “There has historically been no desire” to merge forces. Labour tried to do exactly that, but faced opposition from forces themselves. In the West Midlands, the Chief Constable of West Mercia successfully led opposition to merge four forces (Staffordshire, West Mercia, West Midlands and Warwickshire) into one. The Government eventually backed down.

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