Virtue-signalling corruption? How the expansion of the police task is damaging our capacity to police

18th August 2019Martin Gallagher, Police Scotland 6 Comments

The expansion of the policing task in recent decades has seen the police become the service of first resort for many social ills. Serving officer Martin Gallagher warns this is damaging police capacity, and calls for a retrenchment of policing away from issues of social cohesion to focus instead on crime.

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Virtue-signalling corruption? How the expansion of the police task is damaging our capacity to police

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