Police officers are concerned their work won’t win picked up by other struggling public services. But thats for politicians to deal withThe case of the 14-year-old boy criminalised for sending a naked selfie to a girl in his course is symptomatic of much that is unsuitable with policing in the UK. Many maintain remarked on the stupidity of treating an immature,impulsive act as a criminal matter; in reality this was at most a child protection issue. The police, not unreasonably, or say they were merely following guidelines on the distribution of indecent images. Far fewer maintain asked why there was a police officer based at the school,in a position to record the act as a crime.
In small over a decade, police presence in schools has gone from occasional to routine. It is just one example of a police mission creep that now touches virtually every area of public service. In hospitals and schools; social work and probation work; event stewarding and incident management – you will likely come across a man or women with the power of arrest, or doing a job that should be done by someone else,if it should be done at all.
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Source: theguardian.com