Features, PublicNet: 22 February, 2013
Now that the new Police and Crime Commissioners are established in their new roles, one of their most urgent priorities is the need to proactively tackle the lack of joined-up policing in the UK. John Gillon explains the challenge of joining up not only different organisations, but also of joining up the functional areas within each police force. He also suggests how the challenge can be addressed.
The country’s investigative agencies have been talking about this problem for more than a decade but it continues to be a serious issue. Contrary to popular belief, this failing is not restricted to communication failures between police forces and investigative agencies across the UK, but is an even more serious issue within individual forces.