The police have been talking about introducing fitness tests for bobbies throughout their service for some time now.
All they apear to have done is reduce the standard for prospective candidates in an effort to meet Blunkets increase in the number of recruits for each Force. The successful new recruits then do a few fitness tests for the first two years of their probation and some even fail that! For example the shuttle run now appears to have become a shuttle walk for those who need to make the minimum standard - no wonder the bad guys keep on successfuly running away from a young officer whose had one too many Macdonalds Big Breakfasts
