I’m just perusing the policing White Paper published yesterday by the Home Office - billed as the “most significant modernisation in nearly 200 years”.
Centralisation - loved by communists everywhere. Erase, flatten, homogenise, centralise. Consolidate power. Reduce accountability. Back in your box, serf! We become more and more insignificant as we become part of a larger whole. The warmth of collectivism. You do not matter.
Hard not to look at 'regionalisation' and other centralising terminologies without considering the context of demographic replacement and resultant cultural erasure. As the writer points out, this has nothing to do with democracy or people; it is policing by spreadsheet.
Centralisation reminds me of the comment made by the newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who when he took office on January 1, 2026, declared in his inaugural address that he would replace "rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism".
Centralisation and collectivism are closely associated with communism or democratic socialism as modern day communist like to disguise their true beliefs.
What we need is more 'Real Local Democracy as set out in demand two of this:-
I think you need to add a ban on political parties, they are the root cause of the problem, ask any politician if they would support their local people if it went against their party, use immigration as the example and we all know that every single politician would either lie or support their party.
Some years ago the police training centre at Reigate was closed and sold off, I recall a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth was sold at auction having hung there since the 1950s. No doubt it was thought unnecessary and expensive to send new policemen to a training college, but it worked very well, because there were accepted standards of conduct and knowledge inculcated into new recruits.
Centralisation - loved by communists everywhere. Erase, flatten, homogenise, centralise. Consolidate power. Reduce accountability. Back in your box, serf! We become more and more insignificant as we become part of a larger whole. The warmth of collectivism. You do not matter.
Its getting closer to the 1984 scenario every day. Police will not care about the people they are policing it will turn into a them and us
I posted this a few minutes ago.
https://open.substack.com/pub/agilepmosimply/p/disillusioned?r=26elou&utm_medium=ios
Hard not to look at 'regionalisation' and other centralising terminologies without considering the context of demographic replacement and resultant cultural erasure. As the writer points out, this has nothing to do with democracy or people; it is policing by spreadsheet.
Centralisation reminds me of the comment made by the newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who when he took office on January 1, 2026, declared in his inaugural address that he would replace "rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism".
Centralisation and collectivism are closely associated with communism or democratic socialism as modern day communist like to disguise their true beliefs.
What we need is more 'Real Local Democracy as set out in demand two of this:-
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Nothing is going to change if the people remain silent.
True but as Pete wrote: " it has no bearing on what is best for policing or whether people actually want it."
'We' are no longer relevant, but 'the people' wont be staying silent for that much longer.
I think you need to add a ban on political parties, they are the root cause of the problem, ask any politician if they would support their local people if it went against their party, use immigration as the example and we all know that every single politician would either lie or support their party.
Some years ago the police training centre at Reigate was closed and sold off, I recall a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth was sold at auction having hung there since the 1950s. No doubt it was thought unnecessary and expensive to send new policemen to a training college, but it worked very well, because there were accepted standards of conduct and knowledge inculcated into new recruits.
Police, to become NHS on in blue?
The golden time was the village bobby who lived in the community. True preventative and informed policing by consent.
Discuss.
I wrote this yesterday and posted it a few minutes ago, kinda sums up my feelings about modern day policing.
https://open.substack.com/pub/agilepmosimply/p/disillusioned?r=26elou&utm_medium=ios
No doubt they realise the plan to move to a national police force can’t be introduced prior to another election.
So why go ahead with the planning?
Perhaps because it costs so much money to plan a coup - so whilst in power why not finance it?