PN Unfortunately until the government appoint an independant review, ie one not influenced by Senior officers, there will never be any proper change in the way things are run. But surely someone in governement can see that you cannot rely on senior officers to cull their own numbers.
There is a similar debate at the moment about he police. Notice how ACPO are saying it will lead to loss of front line jobs etc. Well how about reducing the number of police forces to say 13-15 in the UK, creating regional forces. A couple for Scotland, split say East-West, Wales a couple split North-South etc. We can then sack/demote 30 chief constables and their command chains as surplus to requirements.
Of course it will never happen, although you never know.......