It’s startling how many people have complaints about Policing, and equally how much work the Police actually do.
However, there is a huge shortfall in activity that makes sense of the naysayers, and dwarfs the dedicated activity in comparison.
It’s believed, according to private research, that a full scale Police force that covers the UK would cost in the region of £70 billion to £80 billion a year.
This is a cost that involves use of high tech equipment, sufficient ongoing training, and administrative efforts to make sense of the aftermath of crime, and criminal activity.
The lack of this high level of funding is indicative of poor planning and gross misalignment of public understanding and practical realities in a modern economy.
It’s also a legacy of insufficient notions of safety, and a confusion of terms as it relates to political standpoint and the purpose of a Policing force with a socially contractual obligation.
The professionalisation of UK society has to start with the enlargement of the Policing obligation to cover the many, not just the few.