Record number of UK police forces are failing and need intensive help
The Guardian says A RECORD six police forces are currently judged as failing so badly that they need special help as a furious political row erupted over the placing of Scotland Yard into special measures.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary confirmed on Tuesday that the Metropolitan police had been placed into special measures as it waits for a new commissioner to reverse plunging public confidence.
But the full extent of one of the worst ever crises gripping policing across England and Wales is much more widespread and has not yet been made public.
Never before have so many of the 43 local forces been judged to be failing at the same time. Almost one in seven forces are currently judged by HMIC, the official policing inspectorate, as needing to accept intensive help and monitoring to urgently improve their performance.
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