It does the police no good if officers are thought to be at the beck and call of politicians.Such a system, relying on policing by consent, would quickly lose the trust of the public.That is why Lord Denning, the most celebrated English judge of the 20th century, argued that the responsibility for law enforcement ought to lie solely with the police.
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