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Old 29th Mar 2013, 09:47
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Until quite recently the police service could be described in just those words written byTC and I am of the opinion that NPAS is a reaction to that. What follows is a bit simplistic ... but....

Unfortunately, because the instigators of NPAS were of a certain kind [Civil Servants in the Home Office, ACPO and politicians in the main] they took so long over getting their act together in launching NPAS that by the time it came to be a massive amount of work was already in train to turn around the perceived deficiences of what was in effect still a fragmented group of 'Chief Constables/Police Authority Toys'. The now not so recent purchase of 5 EC135P2, the North West and Midland's operational and purchasing cooperations were just a few of the signs of change and the thwarted second bulk buy centred on West Yorkshire was the next stage.

Even then it might have been OK if the whole plan had not been scuppered at the start gate by the pay review that effectively removed all the peer pressure on the crews that would result in them competing to be in a smaller NPAS. That detail means that a massive number of high quality movers and shakers are gone or going soon.

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