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Posted on 01/26/2026 3:56:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Labour has announced wholesale changes to policing with a pledge to increase crime fighting, but faces warnings that at the plan’s heart is an unprecedented centralisation of powers.
Shabana Mahmood said policing in England and Wales was the last public service to have survived unreformed for 50 years, despite being too costly and failing in parts.
After a week of headlines outlining the overhaul, the details of the white paper revealed that the crown jewel measures were years away from being seen, if at all.
Officials hope the bill will become law by 2027 but a new National Police Service (NPS) – labelled the British FBI – will not become the home of counter-terrorism until the end of this parliament in 2029 or later, sources say.
Mergers of the 43 local forces will not be completed until 2034, according to the white paper, with one or two mergers possibly happening by 2029 to test the theory that bigger means better.
Mergers and the addition of counter-terrorism to the NPS may need backing from the next government.
The home secretary will regain the power to sack chief constables and set crime-fighting and service targets. That has triggered warnings about future home secretaries abusing the power, after senior figures in Reform UK – which currently leads opinion polls – discussed curtailing the operational independence of policing.
Peter Fahy, a former chief constable of Greater Manchester police, told the Guardian.
“I worry if a future government makes the head a political appointment and directs it to focus on illegal immigrants or a particular racial group it suits them to blame, we could end up with a Minnesota situation where local politicians and the local chief are against the deployment and see other priorities,”
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Shabana Mahmood is probably unhappy that some British people have not yet been arrested.
Adding sharia for nonbelievers ?
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