Britain has too much crime because it has too many police forces, apparently. But don’t fret, Britons, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has had A Big Idea. Sir Mark Rowley, chief of the ever-showered-in-glory Metropolitan Police, has proposed a radical overhaul of the make-up of police forces. What does he think will fix the crisis in policing? Mega forces.
Sinister though this may sound, in effect it is a rejig. Rowley, the most senior police official in the country, suggests all current 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales should merge to create something like 12 or 15 “new bigger and fully capable regional forces supported by the best of modern technology and making better use of the limited funding available”.
