NATIONAL POLICE CHIEFS' COUNCIL

The National Police Chiefs' Council is,  as the name implies,  the organisational umbrella for the most senior Police Officers in the United Kingdom.   According to its blurb 'the NPCC  brings UK Police Leaders together to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public'.  That's the theory anyway.

We have long been critical of Police Leadership both north and south of the Border.  Police Scotland is a dog's breakfast and we have no reason whatever to think that the Police south of the Border is in any better shape.  A lot of Chief Constables and other senior ranks have found themselves in legal difficulties in recent years basically through lack of character and terrible failings in leadership. 

In our view,  far too many senior Police officers are being promoted nowadays without having the character required for the job.  There are failings,  terrible failings,  in Police Forces up and down the country virtually every day of the week  and most of those failings are caused almost entirely by very inadequate leadership. 

We despair with our head in our hands when we see some of the most senior Police officers in the country appear on television with that ghastly facial stubble that seems to be an almost statutory requirement nowadays for the senior ranks. They simply have no concept of just how ridiculous they present when they are seen as infinitely more like scruffy Social Workers than senior Police ranks. Perception does matter in the Police to a huge degree.

It doesn't just stop there. Senior Police must nowadays be well-steeped in Social Work Speak and they must be politically correct at all costs.  That political correctness has gone mad of late.  Just look at what the National Police Chiefs' Manual says about racial problems in policing the UK when it reads that 'our commitment to racial equality does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind'.  

Only a shower of clowns could present anything like that to the public. And they wonder why  there's always trouble about the shop.