QPol Must Now Meet Quotas..

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Originally Posted by superyob

Quotas are not just applicable to the police force. Most state run organisations are demanding 'quotas' be met. The 'state' pays for much mandatory professional development across many areas of its jurisdiction and expects commensurate results...

Correct - but policing is different to a council ensuring enough pot holes are repaired, or a human services officer reveiwing 10 cases a day.

A police officer should view each act individually and take actions based on evidence. Whether or not enough other people are committing enough offences should not change the way he or she views one individual act. This causes flippant "offences" such as leaving your window 1cm too low to be prosecuted. This just makes the force look like revenue collecting puppets.

If everyone is behaving in a given period, why should the Police have to manufacture offences to hit a quota? - it can lead down a very slippery path.