As a taxpaying civilian I read police blogs (some linked to here on the right) detailing the idiocies of police procedures with appalled fascination.Is this a case of injelititis? - dim bureaucrats only promoting safely dimmer bureaucrats? What would it take to cut out this stuff?
Are all police forces complacent throughout their top ranks? Is there any hope of change at all? Or do I have to resign myself to being bled for ever to pay for this inefficiency?
I am not railing at the police bloggers, by the way! I respect all of them I've read, and I wouldn't have their jobs for anything.
We can view this more broadly, looking at police forces as just one example of state sector inefficiency (if that's not too weak a word). Just in the past few weeks we have seen the distorted priorities of the smug Environment Agency, and the proliferation of organisations and senior posts among those who are supposedly delivering us a high value olympics.
The Taxpayers' Alliance regularly highlights these and other examples. The more publicity they can get, the better. We must aim to reach the point where taxpayers become sick of hearing about how their money is being wasted.
In the case of police forces, blogs regularly expose similar tales of waste across the country. The pattern is clear enough by now. So what next?
2 comments:
I've seen plenty of evidence of waste too in education and local government, for example where 'budgets must be spent' by a particular date.
It's just the mentality and until the Government sorts the public sector managers out, it's still going to go on.
Why should anyone believe that Whitehall employees, or politicians who probably have no experience of managing anything at all, would be capable of slashing this inefficiency, even if they wanted to?
The push has to come from outside the state sector, which is why The Taxpayers' Alliance is so important.
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