Police - Euro-regionalisation
WORKERS, DEC 2005 ISSUE
Charles Clarke has said he wants to merge the 43 county police forces to 12 regional "strategic task forces" or "superforces", depending upon which hype the government uses. The proposals miraculously match up with the EU's regionalisation plan for England and Wales.
Of course the proposals are backed up by supposed research, cost savings and modernisation language, all to hide the real purpose: to establish a national and regional policing structure in line with the EU, a policy which has been on government agendas since the early 1970s.