England Police – the next generation

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West Midlands Police in England is planning on initiating a five-year plan that will affect the country’s police force greatly, the Birmingham Post site reports. The main target is to update the force’s systems to bring better results at the end of the five years: Improving deployment of the policing force in the streets, achieving better connection with the civilian population, upgrading and improving archaic systems to fit the demands of present times and cooperating more efficiently with the rest of the law-enforcement factors working alongside the police. The program, which will begin a re-organization to better the quality of the police force, includes nine key programs made up of a total of 33 projects and will cause 2,500 police officers to lose their jobs. It is estimated that by the year 2020 the local police force will be made up of only 8,000 officers – the smallest number of manpower in the past 41 years.

The first two years of applying the program will include mostly a significant technological upgrade which will be the structure for later years. Among such upgrades, two must be noted: Camera installed on police officers’ body and advanced technological means given to heads of forces on the field as well as tracking systems monitoring the progress of investigations lead by the police in real tine, as if it were a pizza delivery or parcels delivered my messanger.

As mentioned, the program is made of nine key programs that etch the outlines of the upgrading program for the police force. One of those nine is called “next generation local policing”, which aims to apply a new layout for city policing, as the exisiting layout isn’t fit for today’s reality. Another program will emphasize upgrading the traffic police, in view that investigations and intelligence work in real time are required to maximize law enforcement in this area.

Despite the need for upgrading the West Midlands police force, the goverment is cutting down on police budgets in such a way that officials warn of the plan not being fully carried-out and claim that they are doing whatever is possible to avoid any harm to the program, at least for the first two year so its foundations are as grounded as possible.