but those well-meaning hard-working individuals within the police can't change the institutionalised right-wing bias (whether New Labour or Tory), nor change the sexism, racism, homophobia and anti-working class nature of the police.

The police forces' main focus is not to protect the public, but to protect the government and the political classes from the people.

I think the government learned the wrong lessons from Northern Ireland. What do the following have in common? Internment without trial, politicised police forces, police with their badges covered beating the crap out of people, civil liberties being trodded on. These are strategies which helped cause the start of the Troubles in the late 1960s and escalated them in the 1970s, and are now becoming increasingly implemented on the island of Great Britain.