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Met Police chief calls for 43 county forces to be axed in push for major policing shake-up
The way policing is organised in England and Wales is decades out of date and needs a major shake-up, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the current system of 43 county forces hasn't been fit for purpose "for at least two decades" and should be replaced by 12-15 mega forces. Those larger forces would be better able to use modern technology and would reduce "expensive" governance and support functions, he said.
Sir Mark said the 43-force model "was designed in the 1960s and hasn't been fit for purpose for at least two decades". "It hinders the effective confrontation of today's threats and stops us fully reaping the benefits of technology," he said.
"We need to reduce the number of forces by two-thirds, with the new bigger and fully capable regional forces supported by the best of modern technology and making better use of the limited funding available." Writing in The Sunday Times, he called his plans "the first serious reform of our policing model in over 60 years". Chancellor Rachel Reeves' decision to increase police funding by 2.3% above inflation each year in the recent spending review was "disappointing.
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