Neil Basu: ‘Police and crime commissioners are a terrible model and we all saw it coming – it’s a disaster’

3rd September 2024James Sweetland, Policing Insight 2 Comments

Former Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner and National Police Chief’s Council Lead for Counter-Terrorism Policing Neil Basu QPM is one of the country’s most outspoken former senior cops; in the first of a three-part interview series with Policing Insight’s James Sweetland, he called on the new Government to “bin the 43-force model”, argued that the police and crime commissioner (PCC) model has proven a “disaster”, and talked about the “embarrassing deficit” in leadership training for future top cops.

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Neil Basu: ‘Police and crime commissioners are a terrible model and we all saw it coming – it’s a disaster’

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