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Originally Posted by SV650rules
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Small point of order, I believe that article was originally written some thirteen or fourteen years ago and the figures they are referring to are older than that....
The hypothecation scheme it refers to, where forces were allowed to keep a percentage of the face value of tickets issued, was introduced by the government in order to encourage development in certain areas of policing, however senior officers realised they could also use it to make easy money leading to exactly the kind of behaviour the article highlights.... and it was soon taken away from them.
This was also the era of "performance indicators" where they believed they could measure what a police officer did in terms of figures, and that was equally subject to abuse.
The truth is that as soon as you start to treat policing as a business you will expose yourself to all the corruption that attracts, and yet they persist.....