US EditionMahmood to Present Radical Policing Reforms to MPs
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood aims to cut police forces, improve accountability, and invest £7 million in shoplifting intelligence to address rising everyday and digital crime.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will tell MPs on Monday she plans a radical policing overhaul cutting forces and creating a National Police Service called a `British FBI`.
- Responding to rising local crime, Ms Mahmood says the plans address an epidemic of everyday crime like shoplifting while ministers argue fewer forces will reduce costs and improve performance.
- Among the reforms, ministers propose a new `licence to practice` for officers, a recruitment drive for volunteer special constables after numbers fell to 5,534 last year, and a £7 million investment including £5 million for Operational Opal.
- Senior policing figures reacted that Gavin Stephens backs cutting forces from 43 to 12, while Nick Smart said the workforce was not consulted and warned reforms need clear national-local roles.
- To tighten accountability, ministers propose giving the Home Secretary power to sack underperforming chief constables, enforcing response targets of 20 minutes in rural areas and 15 minutes in urban areas, and delegating delivery to superintendents.
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The problem with Shabana Mahmood’s ‘British FBI’
Back in November, the journalist Ed West wrote of how, after their 2024 landslide, Labour ministers met with senior civil servants. The politicos allegedly asked mandarins for ideas on how to run the country. Not unreasonably, the Civil Service pointed out that this was a job for ministers. That story comes to mind when reading that one suggestion of the Policing White Paper published today is to establish, yet again, “a British FBI” — the propo…
Evening Standard
Mahmood to present radical policing reforms to MPs
The Home Secretary is expected to make a statement to the Commons on Monday afternoon on her proposals.
Dixon de Dock Green will “reincarnate” in a new police era driven by “artificial intelligence” and live facial recognition, the police promised. Senior officers insisted that the British police archetype – which appeared in the BBC drama between the 1950s and 1970s – would be reborn thanks to the important reforms revealed by Shabana Mahmood. The Interior Minister has announced plans to reduce the number of police forces in England and Wales fro…
Express & Star
Shropshire Star'We've had a broken model of policing for decades' - Birmingham MP and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defends proposed police reforms
Home Secretary and Birmingham MP Shabana Mahmood has defended her planned reforms to reduce the number of police forces in England and Wales from 43 to around a dozen.
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