Back-office Policing

Today's quote is again from the House of commons Select Committee Report on Police Reform:

"The Government's definition of 'front-line policing' as including work on case files and report preparation skews the statistics and gives an exaggerated impression of success in returning police officers to street duties. We recommend that the definition of 'front-line policing' should be changed to exclude time spent dealing with paperwork indoors." (2005)

If the definition were not changed to "exclude time spent dealing with paperwork indoors", we could happily say that all police work is front-line policing, satisfy all targets, and all get Special Priority Payments.