Hell may freeze over before British police once again become our true protectors. The rot set in many years ago

I have always regarded it as a great privilege to appear on GB News, or to be asked to write articles such as this for the website of Britain’s News Channel. Since the very inception of the most courageous broadcaster in the land, I have been afforded many opportunities to comment on the state of policing in our once great nation, and whenever I’ve been questioned about senior officers, the policies they hand down to their underlings, and the culture that pervades among the corridors of policing power, I have invariably used these words; Woke, corrupt, and generally useless.Finally, I have been vindicated. A report published this week by Lords Blunkett and Herbert, which had been commissioned by the Home Office, rightfully criticised police leadership for its cronyism, nepotism, corruption, abuse of positions for sexual purposes, and the imposition of woke policies, which of course have resulted in what many describe as two-tier policing, and the shambolic and appalling treatment of so many, including murder victim Henry Nowak, writer Graham Linehan, and countless others.The rot set in many years ago. In an effort to demonstrate how hip and progressive they were, ambitious chief inspectors and superintendents scrambled to be photographed with any minority group they could tempt into their police stations or headquarters with the offer of a taxpayer-funded buffet, and a promise to listen to their concerns. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say These provided nauseating photo-opportunities which the greasy-pole climbers relished as they beamed widely into the camera, whilst invariably holding the flag of whatever nation or organisation their guests held an allegiance to. I’ll give you a clue, the cross of Saint George or the Union Jack did not feature.Idiotic senior police chiefs who sat above these chief inspectors and superintendents approved of all this nonsense, having indulged in it earlier in their own careers, and they were quick to promote those in whom they recognised themselves. Consequently, the fluffy and flaky pandering and caving in to these minorities continued unabated. At the same time, pathetic excuses for police chiefs ordered their frontline constables and sergeants to abandon the streets, retreat to their police cars, and become part of a social service rather than a crime-fighting force. Millions upon millions of victims of crime were failed, as the burglary of their homes, the stealing of their cars, the snatching of their mobile phones, and much, much more, went ignored, apart from the issuing of a crime reference number.Irrelevant Degrees and Masters in Business Administration became the must-have tools for promotion, together with the ability to use the latest reformist, liberal, politically correct language that curried favour with those on the panel in front of them. A proven track record in leadership and frontline experience was devalued to the point of being meaningless. Most of those who had their eye upon rapid promotion and the inevitable visit to the Palace or Windsor Castle to receive an entirely undeserved gong, had got themselves away from the rough and tumble, the bruises and the blood of frontline policing as quickly as they possibly could, because they deemed that kind of messy work to be way beneath them, besides, they had policies to write on how to engage with radical elements of the LGBTQ+ community.In short, most senior police leaders became self-absorbed, dangerously progressive liberals, who thought that they knew best, and that all that had gone before in policing was bad, and had to be banished to the dustbin of law enforcement history. Which begs the question; Do you think policing is better for the general public today than it was thirty years ago?Fortunately, their lordships Blunkett and Herbert have recognised much of the above, although the language they have used in their report is much more sanitised than mine. Please do not get swept along by a wave of optimism, because their recommendations to the Home Office remain just that, recommendations, and there is no guarantee that a Sandhurst-style, ‘Police Leadership Academy’, will ever come to fruition.With our current lame-duck Government in a state of paralysis as the socialists await the arrival of their Makerfield messiah, there is no telling what the soon-to-be-crowned, Andy the Almighty will task his Home Secretary with implementing. Talk is cheap, policing is expensive, and Labour have a proven track record of prioritising welfare payments over policing, the prisons, and the courts.So, my advice remains this; Do all that you possibly can in order to prevent becoming a victim of crime, because hell may freeze over before British Police once again become the protectors, the preventers, and the investigators that you and I want them be. Sigh. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter