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andrewducker- Depression may be an evolutionary byproduct of immune system
- Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia
- Air Force Cancelling Its Giant Spy Blimp
- Ocean acidification may be worst in 300 million years
- Why Edinburgh's club culture has gone downhill in the last decade
- Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely” - anyone got more on this?
- NASA has lost a laptop containing the codes to control the International Space Station. Someone get James Bond!
- UK privatising some police services
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Date: 2012-03-03 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-03 05:52 pm (UTC)Two police departments are tendering for bids to outsource those parts of police work that are already (under Labour legislation) legally outsourceable. Note that even the article (which is more than a little misleading, if not outright lying) says "They do not include those that involve the power of arrest and the other duties of a sworn constable."
The Guardian article lists a long list of things they're trying to outsource, which would be privatising the police - if they were outsourcing them. But if you look at the document they took this from - or at least the two pages out of twenty six that they're showing us - what they *actually* say is that they're going to outsource everything they legally can within the range of activities the police have to cover. They then list *all* of the activities the police have to do, in a standard form (the police activity glossary) before saying in effect "Obviously we're not going to ask you to do all of this, just what we can legally get you to do".
In other words, this isn't Tories privatising the police, it's police forces using existing legislation to get services more cheaply from the private sector rather than doing them in-house.
Which no doubt, of course, the Tories welcome, but it's not a new thing from this government.
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Date: 2012-03-03 06:04 pm (UTC)So this would be evidence confirming that hypothesis, rather than anything startlingly new.
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Date: 2012-03-19 03:07 am (UTC)