Communication failures behind lack of trust in Suffolk Police, PCC says

Tim Passmore, Suffolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), says communication failures are behind declining trust in the force.

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00:00 I thought it may be because we've got a relatively inexperienced young workforce

00:03 but that clearly was not the case. What we were told, and I didn't realise this,

00:07 it tends to be those who've been employed for some time, who've, if you, I

00:12 think the word was you, institutionalised, where they don't behave in the

00:16 appropriate manner and things that might have been, could we call it, I suspect

00:19 because most of the offenders were blokes, what you would call the laddish

00:23 culture of 20, 30 years ago is no longer acceptable and quite rightly so. It is

00:27 not acceptable and there are cases there involving people who've been serving in

00:32 the constabulary for some time. That apparently is where the increase was.

00:35 Well it's extremely disappointing that anybody in a position of authority

00:39 think they can behave like that to any work colleague, wherever. It's not

00:42 acceptable and it needs to be stamped out.