Gradually Labour have been removing the checks and balances that operate in the constitution. With the gradual nationalisation of the police force we are moving from the historic situation where the home office was responsible for the operation of legal procedures and the rules under which police operated, but did not get involved in operational decisions (apart from in London) to one in which the Home Secretary has at his command the whole police force.
This cannot be seen as a good thing even if a relatively small sum of money is saved. The way in which the police were pressurised into lobbying MPs for the flawed internment proposals is sympomatic of a lack of concern with process and a concern merely about outcomes. Process is important because of the effects that bad process can have on undermining people's trust in the system.
There are getting to be large groups of people who do not trust the system. This is not just Muslim activists and Animal Rights campaigners. History makes many people of Irish extraction untrusting as have historically been trades unionists. Other groups have similar concerns such as Sikhs and people campaigning against injustice in the family courts.
If any one thing could be summed up from this government is it is the superficial unjust way in which it operates. It treads roughshod on people being concerned about administrative convenience rather than quality of life.
The police mergers are just another piece to this particular jigsaw.
This cannot be seen as a good thing even if a relatively small sum of money is saved. The way in which the police were pressurised into lobbying MPs for the flawed internment proposals is sympomatic of a lack of concern with process and a concern merely about outcomes. Process is important because of the effects that bad process can have on undermining people's trust in the system.
There are getting to be large groups of people who do not trust the system. This is not just Muslim activists and Animal Rights campaigners. History makes many people of Irish extraction untrusting as have historically been trades unionists. Other groups have similar concerns such as Sikhs and people campaigning against injustice in the family courts.
If any one thing could be summed up from this government is it is the superficial unjust way in which it operates. It treads roughshod on people being concerned about administrative convenience rather than quality of life.
The police mergers are just another piece to this particular jigsaw.
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