Reply to post: Policing needs to be hard and expensive so they are forced to focus on important crime.

UK.gov's long-awaited, lightweight biometrics strategy fails to impress

Friday 29th June 2018 18:35 GMT John Smith 19

Policing needs to be hard and expensive so they are forced to focus on important crime.

As Joseph Wambaugh (who was a former beat cop) put it "Police work is only easy in a police state."

IOW in a free society police work should never be "easy."

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