Are you writing a crime thriller? Does it involve British cops? I've read a lot of thrillers and seen a lot of TV & films about policing in the UK and cringed when I see how unrealistic some of them are. Do you know the biggest problems the British police are currently facing? Yes, the biggest is funding cuts, but another is political correctness; it prevents the police enforcing the law fully due to certain 'sensitivities' they have to acknowledge. The British government have burdened their police with a legal duty to spread 'diversity' which makes them overly sensitive and prevents them treating everyone the same, though they would deny this of course. The police internal discipline system is also being widely abused in an effort to sack police officers to save the wages bill.
I spent 30 years at the sharp end of inner city policing in a multi-cultural area of Britain.
If you want to know what's really going on inside the British police today, then take a look at 'Who'd be a copper?' and you will find out. Be warned though. You will be very shocked.
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