Home Secretary Suella Braverman must order all police forces to scrap mandatory degrees immediately
Force awakens
IS the tide finally turning on this shameful era of failing, woke police?
Hampshire’s new chief constable Scott Chilton is scrapping the requirement for rookies to have a degree . . . and we could not agree with him more.
The skills needed to become a first-rate copper are learned on the job, not from university swotting.
This absurd and needless edict was seemingly a hangover from Tony Blair’s original insistence that half our teenagers go to uni regardless of whether their courses were worthwhile.
Increasingly that has produced hand-wringers indoctrinated by leftie lecturers and obsessed with social media posturing, instead of tough cops trained to prevent and detect crime and target villains.
Worse still, that nationwide restriction barred huge numbers of potentially superb but less academic wannabes from applying.
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Not to mention those wanting to change career, such as forces veterans, but unable to spare time for writing pointless essays.
We’ll bet those recruits have a far closer connection to the communities police are there to serve, as Mr Chilton says.
What a breath of fresh air he is.
So is the Chief Inspector of Constabulary who last week told woke officers to forget championing “social change” and simply to “uphold the law as written”.
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Home Secretary Suella Braverman must heed these voices — and order all forces to scrap mandatory degrees immediately.
Now stop them
FROM today police have no excuse not to drag Just Stop Oil’s numbskulls off our jammed streets and nick them if need be.
The vital hardening of the protest laws is excellent news.
Of course the brainwashed left-wing apocalypse cult considers this to be “fascism” by a Tory Government guilty of “genocide”.
Somebody buy them a dictionary.
For months these middle-class idlers have had their rebellious fun and made their facile point.
Ordinary workers are desperate for protection from them — and the cops had better now provide it.
The loons can still stand on the pavement waving “climate justice” slogans.
It’s time for traffic justice.
Growth sup
BRITAIN is drinking its way to growth and long may it continue.
Spending in pubs is helping keep us afloat despite the drag on the economy from incessant strikes by junior doctors, rail workers and others.
Aslef’s train drivers have announced six more months of walkouts, hoping to extract even better pay than the £65,000 they are offered for a four-day week.
The UK’s growth wasn’t great in April, at 0.2 per cent of GDP.
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But at least we’re not in recession like the Eurozone.
The silence from the “we’re the sick man of Europe” Remainer brigade is deafening.