Your Policemen Are Wonderful…
Several young women have been murdered in Ipswich during the past week. Their families and friends will be delighted to learn that:
The NCPE developed a set of guidelines, based on “core investigative doctrine” which all detectives are now trained in.
This includes basics such as cordoning off a crime scene, preserving the evidence, taking witness statements and making house-to-house inquiries.
But it also includes a wider philosophy. Detectives are now trained to follow the evidence and hope it will lead to a suspect, rather than settle on a suspect and try to make the evidence fit.
This is designed not only to prevent miscarriages of justice, but to ensure that detectives remain open-minded and inquiries do not end up following dead ends.
NCPE is the National Centre for Police Excellence, a spawn of New Labour. Soon no doubt the Police, like the National Health Service, will be expected to produce a “financial surplus” or have their funding cut.
