SteelUn
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After a morning of this the top brass got wind and had to have a quiet word with the PCC, and point out that as police officer and staff time was being wasted recording these calls and running round after them they were technically committing the offence of wasting police time. It would seem there is no exemption in the legislation that allows Deputy Commissioners to waste police tine for quality testing purposes.
There is indeed quality testing, but its done by people employed with a specific remit to do so.
Ok so quality testing is ok and so is using staff (whether temporary, hired in or otherwise is moot in my view) time. Does the reaction of the "top brass" to suggest that the PCC's testing is somehow against legislation not therefore strikes you as hiding behind legislation (which if exist was surely never established with the intention to stop a Commissioner quality testing his own force), so as to avoid being independently tested and be accountable to the community they serve, and which, incidentally, is a main reason why PCCs are now to be elected from outside the force?