For the record.
After 24 years service I've seen lots of schemes come and go. I've also seen lots of "new" working practices further the careers of many a senior officer, only for them to be reinventing the wheel.
Throughout all, I keep doing my job despite the interference and meddling, and keep catching baddies with whatever tools I have.
The helicopter says "police" on it.
While ever that's the case, that's what I'll do because Im an attested Officer of the crown. Call me a troll if you like but I reserve the right to criticise a development which lessens my ability to catch bad people doing bad things.
If there are people out there who think that cops would deliberately run a unit down and not go out there day after day and keep trying to catch the baddies, despite npas, then you just don't get the point of it all.