Home Office looks to attract top foreign police to UK
The Home Office risks whipping up a storm with proposals to employ non-Britons at top posts in the police force.
The Home Office is set to proffer radical plans to overhaul how the police force operates in a new consultation document.
It is thought the Home Office has backed the idea of recruiting police officers from abroad to fill chief constable posts.
The consultation document, ‘Getting The Best Leaders To Take In The Most Demanding Challenges’, leaked to the BBC, has reportedly already been distributed to senior police officers across the UK.
The Home Office has stressed the motivation for the shake-up was not ‘dissatisfaction with the people currently leading the police forces.’
Instead it aims to inspire renewed ‘dynamism’ in the higher echelons of the force.
Other controversial ideas in the packages of proposals include performance related pay linked to crime levels, and increased pay for chief constables who control difficult or high crime areas.
But this is likely to be opposition to some of the ideas.
Ruth Henig, chairwoman of the Association of Police Authorities, said the Government must not ignore the importance of local police accountability, which is to say, chief officers whom have close links with their local community.
‘I think that’s the bedrock of British policing and I think anything that is proposed must not undermine that important principle, she said.
