Comment: Policing review welcomed but how much can it achieve?

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Comment: Policing review welcomed but how much can it achieve?

By Gary Mason, Editor of Police Oracle.

Demonstrators march in protest against police cuts

Date - 11th September 2019
By - Gary Mason

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All the police staff associations have welcomed the Police Foundation’s announcement this week that it will lead the biggest review of policing in this country since the 1962 Royal Commission which set up the 43-force template in England and...

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