Police arch says county-based forces might be obsolete

814AM GMT twenty-two March 2010

Sir Hugh Orde, boss of the Association of Chief Police Officers, pronounced it was time for the initial examination given 1962 to simulate the vastly altered inlet of difficult policing Photo PA

The boss of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), Sir Hugh Orde, pronounced it was time for the initial examination given 1962 to simulate the vastly altered inlet of difficult policing.

The examination should cover all from open expectations to military practices, leadership, the make up of forces opposite the nation and the subject of either there should be a inhabitant military use to understanding with the greatest threats.

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Sir Hugh told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme ""I think it is critical to step behind right away and see at this rationally, rather than wait for for a little predicament that will expostulate shift in a approach that is probably not going to be the most appropriate approach possible.

""For example, we could have a multi-site general militant conflict on this country. I would far rather be gentle that we have the most appropriate make up probable to understanding with that hazard given we have looked at it prior to the crisis, rather than on the behind of that crisis.""

It is roughly half a century given England and Wales last took a elemental see at the inlet of the policing, and given that time the work of military has altered in most ways, pronounced Sir Hugh.

""The last time it was finished was 1962,"" he said. ""Policing has changed on 21st century policing, the general threat, the inhabitant threat, internet crime, cybercrime.

""We are in a really opposite place, so I think it we need to step behind and have a little comment of what is the most appropriate form for the simple make up on that we can broach the most appropriate policing possible.""

Sir Hugh done transparent that the examination should be ready to anticipate changes to the county-based forces that have traditionally policed England and Wales, and to see at the choice of a inhabitant force of the kind seen in most alternative European countries.

""The subject has to be "Is there a smallest distance of force to give it the genius to understanding with the slight of policing but carrying to have a little hugely difficult overarching inhabitant structures to lift things together in an emergency?""" he said.

He pronounced Acpo would ""nail the colours to the mast"" in counterclaim of Chief Constables" operational autonomy in any policing make up rising from a review.

""No one can discuss it a Chief Constable how to broach a use at a veteran level,"" he said.

And the Acpo boss restated his antithesis to Conservative proposals for inaugurated military chiefs, revelation Today ""I think you move in to dangerous domain when you elect one particular to paint the hugely different communities in any geographical area we have in the UK.

""They will have got in to energy on a little declaration that by clarification will conclude how they wish us to broach policing. Local policing will be the agenda.""