New Labour’s latest reforms of Police Forces in England and Wales have much more to do with the Euro-federasts’ dream of a “Europe of the Regions” than responding to the changing nature of crime and policing British streets.
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's (HMIC) report, "Closing the Gap", published in September 2005 concluded that the current 43 force structure in England and Wales was no longer "fit for purpose". The report recommended that the best business solution was for the police service to be reconfigured based on strategic forces of sufficient size to provide both effective neighbourhood policing and protective services to combat serious organised crime and terrorism.
Following the publication of the HMIC report, the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke asked all police forces and authorities to consider the best options for their region and to submit them to him by 23 December 2005. The first stage in this process was for police forces and police authorities to develop by the end of October short listed options for each region. This stage has now been completed and feedback has been provided to all chief officers and chairs of police authorities indicating which proposals appear to be most favourable for each of the nine Government Office regions in England and for Wales.
EU map In April 1999 the EU sent out a map to thousands of businesses, schools and libraries throughout the UK showing the British Isles composed of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and nine regions without mentioning the word “England” at all on the map. The options being submitted bear a remarkable and striking similarity to those nine English Euro “regions”.
Regional plans Mr Clarke has written to chief constables proposing the following options for each region:
East Midlands - Either one East Midlands force; or two forces - one covering Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and another for Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire
Eastern - Either one Eastern force; or two forces in one of two different combinations: Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex plus Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire or Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex plus Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire
London - No change proposed - reviews are continuing into the future of the City of London police and British Transport Police in the city
North East - Create one force for the region by merging Northumbria, Durham and Cleveland
North West - Either two forces - one for Lancashire, Cumbria and Merseyside and another for Cheshire and Greater Manchester Police or three forces - one for Lancashire and Cumbria, another for Cheshire and Merseyside, and a separate Greater Manchester force
South East - Any of the following options: • Two strategic forces - Kent, Surrey and Sussex plus Thames Valley and Hampshire • Three forces - one for Kent alone, another for Thames Valley and a third for Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. • Three strategic forces - Kent, Surrey and Sussex; Thames Valley as a standalone force; plus Hampshire as a standalone force • Three strategic forces - Kent and Sussex; Thames Valley as a standalone force; plus Hampshire and Surrey • Four strategic forces - Kent as a standalone strategic force; Thames Valley as a standalone strategic force; Surrey and Sussex; and Hampshire as a standalone strategic force
South West - Either one regional force or two forces comprising Devon and Cornwall as a standalone force, alongside one covering Avon and Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset
Wales - A national Welsh force merging North Wales, Dyfed-Powys, Gwent and South Wales
West Midlands - Either one West Midlands force or two forces - Staffordshire and West Mercia; plus Warwickshire and West Midlands
Yorkshire and Humberside - Either a single regional force or two strategic forces - one for West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire; another South Yorkshire and Humberside.
UK break-up Nation-states are troublesome; veritable obstacles in the path of those who seek to bring about a centralised European Superstate, where all decisions are made by an unelected Commission based in Brussels, whose members are the liberal-left political appointees of the ruling liberal-left governments from the respective 25 member states. This shake up of police forces is further witness to the extent of New Labour’s Europhilic enthusiasm to break up the United Kingdom into administrative regions bereft of any historical continuity, tradition and substance.
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