The sentence in question is this:
'The promise of reform which the Green Paper heralds holds much for the public and Service alike; local policing, customised to local need with authentic answerability, strengthened accountabilities at force level through reforms to police authorities and HMIC, performance management at the service of localities with targets and plans tailored to local needs, the end of centrally-engineered one size fits all initiatives, an intelligent approach to cutting red tape through redesign of processes and cultures, a renewed emphasis on strategic development so as to better equip our service to meet the amorphous challenges of managing cross force harms, risks and opportunities.'
Anyone care to translate??
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The essence of it is, "We'll be taking more officers off the streets to figure out what the Green Paper wants us to do before implementing whatever it is we should be implementing, only to discover it doesn't work, but we'll be working together with our communities to ensure that it doesn't work well".
I think the sentence translates as, "We've got our heads so far up our asses that our words sound muffled".
Translation = The Nulabor Govt are panicking about the next election which they are likely to lose big time.
The compulsory ID cards have gone, road pricing has gone, they have made a statement about local homes for local people and Jack Straw is getting hard with the parole board by not releasing Biggs.
For some time now, the Police have been strangled by red tape and Govt targets. There has been a lot of blogging on the subject and it is common knowledge that Nulabor have wrecked the Police, so from now on, no more targets or red tape.
The thing is that the Govt do not want this to look like a U turn. Hence the green paper which makes it look more like the Govt has had a brain wave, than the fact that Night Jack and the others have won.
At the moment we at ACPO cannot bite the hand that feeds us, but at the first sniff of a Labour defeat we will be like rats jumping off a sinking ship ...
Classic! I don't care how many commas you put in - I'm sure a sentence is never supposed to be that long!! (we're talking grammar here not prison!)
You really could not make it up.
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