Reform the independent, non-party think-tank, today published its new paper on police reform. "A New Force" makes many critical comments on the organisation and methods of policing.
Perhaps one may be mentioned here - the observation that we have the most expensive police service in the developed world per capita, costing 20% more as a proportion of GDP than the USA!
Yet we have street price of drugs falling, - cocaine costs half as much as it did a decade ago, people trafficking is rising and criminal gangs are importing ever larger quantities of fire arms, which are fuelling gun crime in our major cities.
Where have I heard something similar before?
Is it in the fact that we have European levels of health expenditure but are well down in any European league tables for outcomes?
Is it that we have European levels of education spending, but we are dropping like a a stone down the European league tables for educational achievement? (There may be a clue here. I blogged a few months ago that the costs of educating a child in the state sector are broadly the same as in the private sector, the difference in the state sector is that a much higher percentage goes on the centralised and bureaucratic administration.)
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