Winsor, scourge of the force, set for top police job
The man who infuriated rank-and-file police officers with his plans for radical reforms of the service is set to take on one of the most important jobs in British policing, it emerged last night.
Tom Winsor, the former rail regulator, will become the first person without a police or service background to take on the job of Chief Inspector of Constabulary for more than 150 years if his appointment to the £195,000-a-year job is confirmed.
The decision prompted immediate anger from many officers following two controversial reviews into police pay and conditions which recommended changes to generous pension provisions and called for financial penalties for unfit officers and an end to the bar on compulsory redundancies.
Tom Winsor has been named as favourite by the Home Secretary Theresa May to replace Sir Denis O'Connor when he retires at the end of July.
remember what was said earlier...
Home Secretary Theresa May has rejected an accusation of a conflict of interest in Lincolnshire Police's decision to award a £200m contract to G4S.
...and a little further back...!
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X