"You can change the rules in which a force operates, you can change legislation, add new laws, appoint new chiefs, change discipline arrangements, but in essence, there has been little or no success in changing #policing culture, identifying the good bits, dealing with the bad..work on transforming its culture..to do it as a whole, not with 43 different forces doing it in 43 different ways." #word #scrapthemet #MetPoliceUK #metpolicesexoffences #metpoliceMisconduct
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/07/david-carrick-police-reform-met
As an ex police officer, this much is clear: after Carrick, we need new policing and may need to scrap the Met
So many warnings about a toxic culture have gone unheeded. Policing is based on trust – as things stand, it can’t survive, says Steve White, former chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales