Restore Britain Publishes New Policing Policy Paper

Restore Britain has today published Restoring British Policing, a comprehensive policy paper
setting out how the party would overhaul policing in England and Wales.

The paper argues that the problems facing British policing are not a matter of funding or
numbers but of structure, culture, and principle. It sets out a programme of legislative and
institutional reform designed to restore public trust, remove political interference, and return
impartial policing to every community in Britain.

Central to the plan is a Police Restoration Act, which would restore the Office of Constable,
reinstating the independent legal status of police officers and removing the political and
ideological influences introduced by the Police Reform Act 2002. The paper argues that this
Act was the turning point that allowed external bodies, political pressure, and ideological
doctrine to infiltrate policing and erode public confidence.

The paper's key proposals include the removal of all identity specific and politically
influenced policing doctrine, the establishment of a single Equality Before the Law and
Impartial Policing Standard applying the same enforcement threshold to every person
regardless of background, the creation of Police Accountability Boards to provide democratic
scrutiny without political control of operations, the restoration of police-owned intelligence,
custody, forensics, and investigation as core police functions, the rebuilding of a National
Police College and regional training colleges, and the restoration of the National Criminal
Intelligence Service.

You can read the paper in full here.