The police service isn’t institutionally incompetent, but it needs to face up to some hard truths

8th November 2018Policing Insight team

Whilst Times columnist Matthew Parris' attack on the police may have been mean-spirited, was there some truth in his comments? Writing exclusively for Policing Insight, a former chief constable says the service must end its 'defensive, anti-intellectual prejudice' and persuade the best and brightest to join.

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The police service isn’t institutionally incompetent, but it needs to face up to some hard truths

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