A different beat / Guardian, 10 June 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/10/policing?gusrc=rss&feed=society
Mark Hay
"Heavily centralised government targets may have been necessary to raise productivity and performance in the past, but they are now distracting organisations from meeting local needs. However, these changes are not the easy option. Localised policing means new ways of working and integrating with other local public services. It means an ambitious new approach to defining and measuring performance – one which will present three major challenges"