Future leaders need new skills and be less risk-averse

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Future leaders need new skills and be 'less risk-averse'

Chief constables will need a wider skillset to meet future challenges, senior leaders have warned.

Date - 26th February 2021
By - Chris Smith

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'Safe appointees' leading forces they have spent years with will be ill-equipped to meet future policing needs, according to policing experts. Delegates who joined the online Police Foundation annual conference heard from senior policing...

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