Re:How Cars Transformed Policing
by pjc50 on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:58AM
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British police are not a huge influence on politics at the moment, and the extreme weakness of local authorities makes them barely worth influencing; police salaries are set centrally.
There was an attempt to import the American system by establishing "police and crime commissioners". They are absurdly highly paid compared to most political appointments (especially councillors they replaced): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22624096 - but they remain pretty invisible in the news. My pet theory is they were created to establish a funding channel to Conservative party candidates.
All shootings by police are routinely investigated by the fairly independent IPCC.
(The one big exception to all this was the history of the RUC in Northern Ireland, which is a whole other story)
There was an attempt to import the American system by establishing "police and crime commissioners". They are absurdly highly paid compared to most political appointments (especially councillors they replaced): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22624096 - but they remain pretty invisible in the news. My pet theory is they were created to establish a funding channel to Conservative party candidates.
All shootings by police are routinely investigated by the fairly independent IPCC.
(The one big exception to all this was the history of the RUC in Northern Ireland, which is a whole other story)