The long arm of the law is increasingly attached to bodies which are not up to the job, reveals the Sunday People.

This newspaper has found almost 1,500 ­officers failed their ­standard fitness test last year, ­raising serious ­questions over their ability to chase and catch criminals.

Our survey of 30 forces in England and Wales under Freedom of Information laws revealed 1,492 failures.

Reported by the Daily Mirror. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.