Kent Police Authority

The following appeared in Kent News on-line as a response to Anne Barnes defence of the Kent Police Authority. Whilst it is somewhat rambling there are a few nuggets.

A school governor, Ken Little wrote to KoS refuting the defensive denials of Anne Barnes and the scaremongering of police federation statements. The police force used to be more responsive when it was run military style. It's character changed the more the police were allowed to abuse sick pay, overtime and get away with using excessive force. Ms Barnes sounds very much like the woman who fronts the Banker's association. Self-praise is no praise. She has been in harness for long enough to have met and greeted families and individuals affected by violent crime or hidden abuse, eg suffered by children and women in their own homes, or intimidation and blackmail suffered by whistleblowers in the NHS, local councils, police and other institutions is routinely swept under the carpet or settled with gagging orders. The police and so called independent police authorities are symptomatic of widespread social malaise and decline, as despicable as teachers who turn a blind eye to bullying in school / neighbours who ignore their eldery or vulnerable neighbours. I believe what is wrong with police is systemic failure, government interference, warped priorities, racism against black police officers / prejudice against certain sections of the community, a sense of entitlement to overtime, targets, questionable statistics, much untransparency, ie we are told only what the police want us to know. The public are also to blame, uncaring, unquestioning, or indifferent where £billions are not spent in our best interests and civil liberties eroded.