Police recruitment needs to be “far more rigorous”, a watchdog told MPs as he warned it would be “plainly inadequate” for forces to hire officers through a purely online process.
Chief inspector of constabulary Sir Tom Winsor told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that when police discover concerning attitudes and behaviour among trainee officers and during the recruitment process they should “root them out and throw them out” otherwise they are “storing up what could be a 30-year problem”.
