Summary
CIVILIAN "police assistants" should be created to operate speed traps,administer breath tests and investigate minor criminals such as shoplifters, an official document proposed yesterday.
The radical draft paper from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)even suggested that a new "sub-set" of armed police officers would not need to go through the full police training programme to take up duties such as guarding the Houses of Parliament.See the full content of this document
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Give New Powers to Police Assistants
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