This is an urgent task. In a YouGov survey last month, half the population said that they had “none” or “not very much” confidence in the police to tackle crime locally. Confidence has fallen by 13 percentage points in the last five years.
Cooper’s reforms are sensible enough. Indeed, they follow the Blairite template of public service improvement to the letter. The first stage of “deliverology”, according to Michael Barber, the guru of Tony Blair’s delivery unit, who is back in No 10 advising Keir Starmer, is to have reliable real-time information about the state of a public service.
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