UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
07 AUGUST 2014
One of Britain’s top policemen has warned that forces in England and Wales are ill-equipped to deal with inquiries into past wrongdoing.
Sir Hugh Orde said there is increased demand for dealing with historical matters and current inquiries risk being under-resourced.
The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) addressed an event in Belfast.
He said: “We are seeing a demand to look into the past more and more and the police services of England and Wales are ill-equipped to deal with that.
“You cannot under-resource a historic inquiry; bizarrely, you can under-resource current inquiries.”
Sir Hugh established the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) of independent detectives in Northern Ireland to deal with more than 3,000 unresolved murders.
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