'21st-century ills' will make forces merge
Jane’s Police Review, 30 April 2008
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"The merger of police forces in England and Wales is inevitable happen - and will be triggered by one force making a grave error, chief officers have warned. Sir Norman Bettison, ACPO lead on the future of policing, told the Home Affairs Select Committee 'a small number of strategically sized forces would be the best way of arranging ourselves against 21st-century ills'..."