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Ryan Bridge: We need 500 excellent cops, not average ones
So it looks like looks like police will miss the deadline of adding 500 extra sworn officers by 2026.
What we were promised should take two years. Now the new Police Commissioner, when fronting scrutiny week in parliament, he said it will take 2.5 years.
So an extra six months - will anyone really care? Probably not.
Should we care?
When there are more bad guys out there doing bad things, we should always care about how many good guys and girls we have out there countering that.
But on this particular point of missing a target by 180 odd days, not really.
Why? One - the target was always…
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