What is actually going on within Policing?

Is it not time that people actually stood up and asked questions of our senior police leaders? What is actually going on?

The Upsetter has brilliantly uncovered a wealth of damming evidence and in the process they have managed to "join the dots". They have not feared to tread where others might and have asked the questions that others have previously dared to ask. What they have uncovered and exposed should now be reverberating around the hallowed corridors of police leaders up and down the country.

The article speaks for itself.

If common sense prevails it should now initiate much needed conversations throughout the whole of policing as to how this was allowed to occur with so many broken lives being left in its wake. So many broken lives, and minds that could have so easily been constructively engaged to solve policing's current problems. People were simply seen as collateral damage, sacrificed at the expense of personal egos and personal and organisational reputations.

Yes, The National Police Air Service sits at the very heart of this particular sorry story but how many times can this set of circumstances be reflected in other police services across the United Kingdom? Does the recent Baroness Casey Report on the Met not directly highlight this destructive and pervasive practice?

In a sense NPAS is a case study, the "Enron of policing" providing a universal message across the whole of policing and organisations to learn from. That message is this,

"This is simply not how to treat any person if policing is to once again serve our communities!"

The article also begs further serious questions as to the evolution of NPAS under the command and leadership of such people.

If people were so badly treated and openly discouraged from constructively adding their voices to important and much needed conversations, how does that then impact on safety and also critical decision making? How many silent voices could, and would have readily added their wealth of experience and knowledge to the conversation? Insight that may have even saved millions of pound's of tax payers money but instead they begrudgingly decided to protect themselves and their families by saying nothing?

When people work and live in fear they do not thrive as they are solely intent on personal survival, continually looking inwardly to preempt where the next threat or attack will come from. As a result no organisation will ever develop, be successful or ultimately be sustainable. That downward spiral has been sadly witnessed within NPAS.

Is there not also a place for the Civil Aviation Authority to pay closer attention to such a safety critical aviation operation when such a toxic cancel culture exists?

So many of those disturbing questions are answered within the Upsetter's article. How do we prevent this from happening ever again is a whole separate conversation...

Let us now see if our senior police leaders will take a step back and reach out for that invaluable insight that they do not currently possess or will they continue to remain silent, hoping that the storm will eventually blow over with minimal damage to their personal reputations and pensions. Time will tell...