Workforce Modernisation and Future Resilience within the Police Service in England and Wales / Vathek Publishing, 10 July 2008
http://www.atypon-link.com/VAT/doi/abs/10.1350/pojo.2008.81.1.428
Police Journal 81(1): p.62-81
Barry Loveday
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This article is based on a presentation given to the National Workforce Modernisation Programme Conference at Leeds in 2008. It argues that the issue of future police resilience should not stand in the way of modernisation and that while it may be used as a defence of the status quo there is growing evidence that reform can be expected to enhance police service delivery. It argues that the nature of police establishment growth has meant that there has been no attempt to match police numbers to police functions and that incremental growth, which has characterised police officer expansion, now means that it is difficult to defend current police numbers. This problem is made worse by the challenge presented by police abstraction rates, which appear to have increased in line with police establishment. It is also suggested that the increasing operational role of police staff is rarely taken into account by HMIC when assessing police performance even though many former police functions are now the responsibility of civilian personnel. As a result the threat to police resilience, used as a defence of current police establishment, may significantly exaggerate the challenge that workforce modernisation represents."
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Modern man
Jane's Police Review, 25 June 2008
http://jpr.janes.com
"Police Review has carried many articles and letters about workforce modernisation and its likely impact. There have been many challenges as to whether the service needs modernisation, but perhaps underlying this is confusion about what the process is aiming to achieve."
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Policing Policy e-Bulletin: No 111 / 22 February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wmnr

Footing the bill: reforming the Police Service / Policy Exchange, January 2008
PDF - http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/libimages/340.pdf
Barry Loveday and Jonathan McClory

Police Reform e-Bulletin: 107 / Home Office, October 2007
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Police reform e-Bulletin: 106 / Home Office, September 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4tswr

[Australia] Paperwork and red tape helping criminals: police / The Age, 16 Jan 2007
http://digbig.com/4qrtg
Andrea Petrie
"Years ago, armed robbers tended to be just armed robbers. Now they are (also) into drugs, into fraud, they are into murder. Confusion within Victoria Police over who should investigate some of the state's most serious crimes is causing critical delays to murder probes and other investigations, senior police sources say. Sources have told The Age that since a restructuring of the crime department in July, some cases have been stalled by up to a month as they were shuffled between departments. They claim the model has the potential to help criminals "literally get away with murder" as police now spend most of their time on paperwork before investigations begin."

[Australia] More police needed on beat / Daily Telegraph [NSW], 15 Jan 2007
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Stephanie Balogh and Joe Hildebrand
"NEW York police and crime experts have told the NSW Government it needs a zero-tolerance crackdown on minor crimes if it wants to fix Sydney's escalating street violence crisis. But they warn the state may not have enough officers on the streets to do the job with figures showing that per capita NSW has less than half the police force of New York and almost 9000 fewer officers than London."