Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner on the 'obvious' answer to antisocial behavour, defending stop and search and why not every new police recruit has to be an officer
“[For example], the vast majority of financial transactions that are illegal are [done] online. The prevalence of online paedophiles and the ever-increasing access they have to the dark web requires skills that are not necessarily [those of] a traditional police officer.
Twelve months ago, you called for an end to the need for people joining the police to either have a degree when they did so or obtain one as part of their training. You got your wish late last year – so will that enable the 612 new officers to be on the streets of Lancashire sooner? “Part of the problem is there [are] a lot of police officers that are retiring as well. So actually, the total recruitment intake is around 1,300, just over 1300 officers. So it’s far higher than the 600 that we’ve actually recruited. Around 1,000 of those are [at] varying points [in] degree programmes. [But] a number of those degree programmes might have been started two years ago…so not all of those [do] we now need to wait three years [for their graduation].
As commissioner, you’ve increased your share of the council tax by the maximum amount permitted for each of your two years in post.
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