Britons are supposed to be policed by consent. The theory is the police are the public and the public are the police. Unfortunately in recent decades that idea has gone out of the window. Too often the police do not appear to serve us the people but instead only serve as the enforcers of the state’s increasingly deranged ideas and ideology.

A respected commentator on Twitter called Jack, a lawyer who has been a doughty foe of the various Hamas worshippers that have crawled out of their foetid pits since 7/10, has pointed out just how far UK police forces have departed from Peelian policing principles. Jack said in a post on X:

Peel’s 9 Principles of Policing that have been a cornerstone of British policing since 1829, and the basis of the term ‘policing by consent’. In one week, Two Tier Kier and his Gestapo ‘police’ chiefs have shattered every one. We are no longer policed by consent, but by fear.

Here’s Jack’s post of Peel’s 9 Principles of Policing:

Have you read them? Do you understand why they are important? Have you looked at the behaviour of our police forces, especially the senior management and seen the two tier way that they police, observed the way that senior officers pander to members of some groups and not others and how politically engaged and biased they are? Have you seen how they tolerate pro-Hamas marchers with participants calling for the murder of Jews but are less tolerant of those who object to such calls? If you have then you will like me agree with Jack when he says that our police forces have abandoned policing by consent in favour of seeing the citizen, especially those in the majority population or who hold views that are not favoured by the state, as an enemy to be subdued.