Police Force Officially Piss Poor

[Naselus]

A think tank has released a report about how the police force is 'close to collapse' because new recruits are 'lazy, stupid and poorly led', while meddlesome Home Secretaries "bring it closer to collapse" every day.

Apparently, the police entrance exam is 'way below GCSE standard', with multiple choice questions along the lines of 'A car park has room for 220 cars on each floor. How many cars are there on 3 floors?".

I'll be honest. I've generally stood by the usual assumption that you join the police force for much the same reason you join the army; if you've got no choice, or if youve failed your GCSEs. And this actually makes it look like I'm right.

Naturally, the think tank hasn't really done anything other than restate the problem, so what could actually be done to improve our useless lawkeepers?

[HStorm]

Abolish all laws?

[Naselus]

OK, I'll refine it. Does anyone sensible have a suggestion of what could be done? Offering police a reasonable salary, perhaps? Trying to avoid crewing the force with racist retards, maybe?

[HStorm]

I suspect the recruiting process was deliberately dumbed down a little while back to ease the task of repopulating the force. That in itself isn't a completely bad idea, especially if there's no other source of recruits except the unemployably uneducated, but it means they have to extend the training stage enormously. And they won't do that, because the Home Office wants to appear tough on crime, so they just throw the new constables in at the deep end.