UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told the country’s police forces to fight real crime and move away from so-called woke policing.
Government ministers have been impressed by the turnaround at Greater Manchester Police.
When Chief Constable Stephen Watson took the reins there, he ordered officers to adopt a back to basics approach to the job and warned them that the public was fed up with woke policing.
According to LBC:
Government sources told The Telegraph that the PM will make crime one of his three main priorities during November’s Autumn Statement.
A source said: “We want to get officers on to the front line doing what they are supposed to do which is preventing and solving crime.
“The chief constable of Greater Manchester has done a great job on that. We want to see what Greater Manchester have done replicated across other forces.”
Mr Sunak said during his leadership campaign that police should be focused on fighting crime, not “policing bad jokes on Twitter”.
Dominic Raab, the reinstated deputy prime minister and justice secretary, is overseeing a bid to pass a Victims’ Bill into law as part of the anti-crime push.
In August, a report by a former Metropolitan Police DCI said a “back to basics” approach was needed, with officers discouraged from acts that are meant to show solidarity for a cause.
David Spencer said: “Even the perception that an officer’s decision-making, such as whether to arrest someone, might be influenced by a partisan political view has the potential to be hugely damaging to public confidence.”
