Last week, when Westminster was noisy and excitable about the calling of a snap general election, an official report into the state of policing in Britain was quietly laid before parliament. Given what else was going on, it went largely unremarked at the time, but the analysis it contains says a lot about the choice the electorate faces on June 8. The report’s author is Sir Tom Winsor, head of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, a man you might think is on good terms with the prime minister. After all, he was appointed to the post by Theresa May in 2012 and had previously been entrusted by her to lead a controversial review of police pay. The report he published last week was, however, anything…

Source: The Times April 26, 2017 00:22 UTC