Police have been turned into bureau cops
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Research conducted by the Liberal Democrats has revealed that the police spent a total of 56 million hours filling in paperwork last year. In a keynote speech to the Police Federation, Liberal Democrat Leader Menzies Campbell said:
“The police have been turned into bureau cops.
“The police should be allowed to get on with what they do best, fighting crime and catching criminals, not wasting millions of hours on paper work each year.
“When I speak to police officers I hear again and again that officers’ time is wasted re-entering the same information on multiple forms.
