Can a former police officer carry out independent oversight of the police on behalf of the public or is he bound to be too much ‘one of them’?
Such is the concern that has been expressed by some in reaction to the news that at least 12 of the 41 newly elected (sort of) Police & Crime Commissioners for England & Wales are themselves former police officers.
However since quite a few of them never rose to the ranks of senior management themselves, I wonder if the motive might have more to do with scores to settle, by men who hold unenthusiastic views of the management under which they served.
But then I get too many of my ideas from bolshie fictional policemen such as Banks & Rebus
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