MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019

Editorials

Johnson has to do more to win

back police trust

It is in the nature of those at the top of our public services to complain about lack of resources. Indeed, it is
an important role for them as no one else will do it so expertly or with such authority.

So when senior figures in policing warn, as they now do, that the government’s plans to boost policing
numbers are inadequate and insufficient to the task, it might in the past have been easy to simply dismiss
them.

No longer. Policing in Britain is in crisis, and a politically driven target for recruiting police officers is

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