Friday 18 July 2014
Policing By Consent?
‘Theresa May recently warned the Police Federation that “policing by consent” was at risk.
She told them that “recent revelations” about Hillsborough, police spies, Stephen Lawrence and so on put the “relationship between the public and the police” in danger.
The Home Secretary could be right. But it was a Tory government that pushed the Bobbies as far from “policing by consent” and towards being “Maggie Thatcher’s boot boys” as they could.’
