As James Forsyth says today, No10 wants Bill Bratton to not just take
charge of the Met but start a revolution in policing. A ‘Stop Bratton’ campaign has duly begun with Sir Hugh Orde, himself a candidate for the job, saying that he’s not sure he wants to “learn about gangs from an area of America that has 400 of them.”
But it’s worth noting, though, that Bratton has advised the British government before: in June 2006, at the beginning of John Reid’s tenure at the Home Office. Allister Heath (now
editor of CityAM) went to meet him and reported back in The Spectator. His piece is below.
‘You can control crime’, Allister Heath, The Spectator, 24 June 2006
It was as if the two men had suddenly burst out of nowhere. ‘You’re coming with us,’ one of them growled as they pounced on Caroline, grabbing her by the arms and starting to drag
her down a dark side alley.
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