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The Troubles With the Metropolitan Police
I remember Alan Milburn coming over who was the whole secretary and saying that if this carried on like this, they wouldn't be able to run the whole service. I think there's a reason that the police have not been reformed is it's really difficult to do. Most politicians don't want to take on the police in those terms. But then actually coming up with the right answer, now people are talking about breaking up the Met, but then you may end up with a very difficult problem. We've got lots of different sorts of policing going on in different parts of London. And many senior police officers will tell you, actually it's ridiculous having the very small police services all over the
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