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Article: We've heard it before.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2007
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We've heard it before DON'T you wish you had a fiver for every time aGovernment - Tory or Labour - promised to slash police bureaucracy and putbobbies back on the beat? Take the last ten years alone. In 1997, Labourpledged to 'relieve the police of unnecessary bureaucratic burdens'.
Five years later, Home Secretary David Blunkett insisted: 'We have to cut outthe paperwork. We have to cut, well let me say it, we have to cut the c**p.'And today? Gordon Brown announces: 'We are looking at how we reduce the amountof paperwork these officers have to undertake.' Just looking, Mr Brown - at atime when the paperwork to deal with a single theft from a shop can keep ...