A licence to excel or the backdoor to compulsory severance?

The proposed licence to practice policing is designed to improve skills and guarantee minimum training levels. But it would also be a process for getting rid of officers judged to be poor performers.

How do you resolve the following issues?  Detection rates have plummeted in the last seven years with 9 per cent of all recorded crime in March 2021 resulting in a charge or summons compared to 17 per cent in 2014. For fraud it is even worse:...