An elegy for policing

When people felt Britain was safe and the coppers had their backs

I wrote here yesterday about the shocking erosion of the ethic of British policing, with police officers having been demoralised (in every sense) over many decades by a governing class that has itself steadily lost the moral and social plot. In response, a reader sent me a message that is so apposite I am reproducing it below, with his permission.

In th…