The wrong sort of police are being hired
Fraud is the biggest crime in Britain. Recruitment does not reflect that
“Be the difference”, reads the Home Office’s advertisements for its hiring campaign for police officers. Launched in 2019 to return the number of police to pre-austerity levels, the initiative seeks to fill 20,000 new positions across 43 forces in England and Wales by March 2023. In general hiring is going well. Police forces have exceeded the interim target of 12,000 new hires by March 2022; the remainder will be brought on board later this year and early next. The problem is that the wrong sort of police are being hired.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The beat has changed”
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