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A report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) on 26 November 2009 suggests that the time has come for radical reform of the police service in England and Wales given that funding is set to be cut and the police face an assortment of new challenges.
The report argues that there is a strong case for far-reaching changes to the way the police work, specifically how they are paid, managed, trained and recruited. It also advocates greater integration of policing systems and processes across the country; a sharper focus by the police on the needs of the citizen; and a transformation of the organisational culture of policing which remains far too risk averse and process driven.
The report insists that these reforms cannot be meaningfully advanced until a wider set of problems stemming from the way the police service is governed, organised and held to account is first tackled.
Arrested development: unlocking change in the police service