

(our vans were grey then blue but not panda livery).
Back to Community Policing; Out in the sticks we are being hit with an NPT one size fits all principle, not so! There may have been a need return to community based policing principles in some of the larger urban forces but not here. Community policing never died, community policing is what we have always done, and with very limited numbers. Policing by consent not by force, the major foundation of why the British police system works (or used to). Now we have Response Officers and NPT Officers with a strict job/remit demarcation between the two. An increase in the demands placed on 24/7 officers and in some cases less than third of the establishment able to deal with that demand? In some cases there are less officers able to respond to demand now than there were 20+ years ago? There's police modernisation and progress for you... At least we can get from A to B quicker these days!

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