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WATCH: Ex-cop claims he is 'ashamed' of recruitment crisis in force
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Apr 25, 2025
Former police officer Norman Brennan said he was "ashamed" of the recruitment crisis facing British police forces after Australian authorities launched a targeted drive for British officers dissatisfied with their working environment.South Australian Police recently launched its campaign to attract over 200 experienced officers from the UK and other countries.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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and giving them cushy jobs in Australia
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Yeah, good afternoon, Tom and Emily. Yeah, that's what we've got left
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Many good, hard-working, retired, experienced police officers have left the police service a decade ago and every year ever since
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Yeah, the Australian Police Service have rightly seen, it's not just this country, it's many others
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they've actually brought their boss over to talk to UK police officers
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to tell them the type of policing that they offer. And I'm ashamed to say that I've been in policing now in 46 years
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and law and order in Britain, 31 as a frontline serving officer
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I've never seen the morale so low in Britain within the police service
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I've never seen senior management so out of touch, no vision, no passion, lack of leadership
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the morale is so low that last year, for example, in the Met
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their net intake after 12 months was just 84. And police officers are looking around
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and they believe that they are the aunt sallies of society. Every time anything goes wrong, blame the police
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I remember the police when I joined, and hundreds of arrests if they had the iPhones out when I was serving
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I'd be on social media probably every single day with people asking for me to be strung up when all I was doing was trying to do my job. So many
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police officers now in Britain have had enough. And this is an opportunity for some, and I believe
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many will apply, but they have to carry a firearm to look at trying something new and getting out of
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a country that so many of us see now is broken and the police service is broken too Yeah I mean Norman I can understand why British police officers would want to go to Australia I mean Australia haven just been
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trying to pinch our police officers. They've done it with doctors, nurses, probably other jobs as
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well, but picking on public sector jobs, really, first and foremost, I would say. But Norman
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is it really that bad for police officers? Is it the pay as well that's an issue? You know
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why would it be so much better in Australia besides the weather? Well, let's put it this way
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As I've just told you, I've seen police change over 46 years
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I'm still an independent campaigner for Britain. When I was serving, I was the only serving police officer
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that spoke to media outlets like you, and I was warning what it was like within police
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in the criminal justice system, the courts, society, that we were losing the public, that victims were failed
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and nobody listened. Every single police officer that joins the police service
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despite what some public think, join because they have an earning, a passion to add something to life
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and work as a team to make society safer. And when you turn up for a job, Emily, and you feel as though
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it's almost worthless, you have to pick up dead bodies. You have to give the worst message that
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you can actually give. You want to give to the public, but you're not able to do so. Many officers
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now will be looking out to that hand of friendship from Australia and saying, do you know what
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I'm single or I'm young and I want a better future for my children
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And they're looking at going. And I believe that dozens, if not hundreds, will actually take the leap
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And if nothing else, just look at getting up every day, that serotonin hitting your bonce, if nothing else, and lovely beaches
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And the comrade over in Australia, I think, is a lot higher at this moment than it is in Britain
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