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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Margaret Davis

Calls for move away from police structure designed in the early 1960s

Chief constables in England and Wales are backing plans for a new national police body (Nick Ansell/PA) - (PA Archive)

A new national police body should be set up to move the service on from a model designed in the 1960s before the internet and mobile phones, chief officers have said.

Chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council Gavin Stephens told a conference in Westminster there are too many decision makers in the current structure of 43 geographical forces in England and Wales, that leads to inertia.

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