Misleading and inaccurate: Douglas Carswell's blog about ACPO

Douglas Carswell’s assessment of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) offers an object lesson on the value of primary sources. General Sir Nick Parker’s independent review of ACPO, commissioned by Police and Crime Commissioners, is well worth a read, and has set Chief Constables and Police and PCCs together on a path towards a modernised and simplified national body.

Its first recommendation is that there is a requirement for a Chief Constables’ Council: to conduct operational and managerial coordination between independent Chief Constables, act as the focus for command and leadership, maintain links to inform policy and implement practice, and speak with a coordinated and independent voice on operational policing.

Falsehoods such as data being sold from the Police National Computer have long been discredited and we will have no hesitation in referring repeats to the Press Complaints Commission.

Everything we do should be about better protecting the public from crime. In a system of independent local police forces, an element of national coordination at a leadership level helps us do that.

For more information please contact:

ACPO Press Office
Association of Chief Police Officers
e: press.office@acpo.pnn.police.uk