Crude Tory Party plans to politicise the British police seem to be moving a step closer – or would be in the disastrous event that they should ever again form a government. This latest Tory shift ever further to the right wing of politics is a dramatic departure from the long established British consensus that our Police Forces should not be tainted by Party-political direction. The links below illustrate just what many of the UK’s most senior police chiefs think of it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8369536.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/12/police-chiefs-row-with-tories
