Ambitions – 2020

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower (a similar quote is attributed to Winston Churchill)

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AMBITIONZ

Making Bermuda Suffer

Bermuda’s 2016 – 2018 policing plan (BPS Strategic Plan)  and it’s 5-point approach is succeeded by a 2018-2020 plan, the 2018 over-lap and it’s introductory in 2019 appearing to cause no questions.  The latest plan was likely commenced in 2018 … these things take time … and possibly the result of hackneyed platitudes gained from the UK.  That is not to say the UK is without useful observation and comment.  there are obvious parallels and a blunt remark appears to be missing from Bermuda’s introverted approach – the Public Authority that is the police service, requires Government support.

20/2018 – The UK’s Police Superintendents’ Association have commented upon ‘Policing for the Future’, a UK publication (summary here), which drew response from the Association President Gavin Thomas and can be read by clicking here.

As for the Commissioner’s report, how much is original, how much cobbled together form other sources and presented to appease the masses?


Further related reading:

2018 Policing for the future – Policing for the future

2018 Neighbourhood Policing – The future of neighbourhood policing

2025 NPCC Policing Vision – sets out the plan for policing over the next ten years

2015 Ethical_leadership – College of policing This study focuses on issues of leadership and organisational ethics

2009 bureaucracy – Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing

2007 Washington – Police Organization and Management Issues for the Next Decade


*Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

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