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File:Police with Pride.png These virtue signalling police cars cost large amounts of money for an institution that insists on making cuts elsewhere.
Police in Great Britain.

The Police of the United Kingdom kill far less people that the US Police.

In 2021, due to the COVID-19/Lockdown/UK, public confidence in the police fell dramatically.

Corruption

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A 2011 report by Transparency International concluded that although corruption is not endemic, police corruption in UK is a much greater problem than recognised and that there was an inadequate response to its growing threat.

Murder by the UK police is widely believed to be extremely rare and deaths in police custody are much lower than in the USA. However, the revelations of Lana Vandenberghe (and her subsequent sacking) surrounding the death of Jean Charles de Menezes indicate that the "Independent Police Complaints Commission" was not in fact independent of influence by the UK establishment.

UK police abandoned investigations into over 1,000 crimes daily in 2020 with one in seven probes dumped within 24 hours; including rape, murder and arson.

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'Banksy', Flying Copper (2004)

Policy Priorities

in 2015, Sara Thornton, the head of the new National Police Chiefs' Council stated that while burglary was an important crime for police, police man not visit burglaries in future. Pointing to financial cuts, she added "think of the threat to our children from sexual offences, from sexual abuse, from online abuse, that's what we've got to prioritise."

Austerity

Since 2010, half of Britain's police stations have been closed and sold off. 40% of police stations are closed to the public.

Activities

Mass Surveillance

UK police have collected more than 19 million mugshot photos of suspects (i.e. presumed innocent people), a practice which was deemed unlawful in 2012. Lord Justice Richards said: “It should be clear in the circumstances that a ‘reasonable further period’ for revising the policy is to be measured in months, not years.” However, in 2017 their retention was retroactively legalised, by a UK Home Office review which gave people the responsibility to request the police delete them - a request that the UK police may deny if they claim the images are needed "for a policing purpose".

Intolerance of criticism

In 2018, Breitbart News reported that "Britain’s police have stumbled into another public relations disaster after threatening to track down and prosecute Facebook users for ridiculing them."

Operation Talla

During Covid, UK police implemented Operation Talla. Launched by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) in early 2020 and coordinated through UK Gold Command, it started as a framework for suppressing dissent by enforcing lockdowns and "public health" measures across England,Wales, Scotland (under parallel ops like Moonbeam), and Northern Ireland. It continued with a directive to frontline officers to reject, ignore, or reclassify reports of potential crimes related to COVID policies, especially harms from the Covid "vaccine". In a three-month window from late 2021 to early 2022 alone, an estimated 5,000-10,000 reports from victims, witnesses, and medical professionals were dismissed without record, effectively burying any legal scrutiny of the jab rollout.

Drones

In 2017, the first UK police force announced plans for a "24-hour police drone unit".