Dear Sir
| Published date | 01 March 1982 |
| Date | 01 March 1982 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900114 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
tion.
either (a) NASPO members are
extremely thm or, in some places, non-
juvenile, and thus, on recanting, would
existent. To launch an argument on the
be eligible for a caution, or (b) NASPO
basis of such statements as &dquo;I have
are adults who are ’de-spiring’ to juvenile
already heard officers mentioning a new
behaviour. Isn’t it about time NASPO
certainty about their role and sensed a
members grew up and joined a truly
contentedly acquiescent attitude&dquo; as the
adult organisation representing their
basis for further comments to do with
interests-NAPO?
&dquo;disillusionment&dquo;, &dquo;further pain&dquo; &dquo;the
Yours sincerely,
acceptance of the curtailment of initia-
M. GOUGH
tive&dquo; and &dquo;general de-skilling&dquo; seems to
Shelton Hilton Hotel,
be stretching the credibility of these
Acapulco-on-Trent, Staffs
statements to the extreme.
PS: I hope Ian Hankinson had a nice
Perhaps one could also request Mr
holiday in Greece.
Burnham to provide us with the evid-
*my emphasis
ence, for it is not contained in his
article, for the unequivocal statement
that &dquo;the prioritisation of work obliges
Doom and Gloom
officers to organise their work in ways
other than that which they, individually,
Dear Sir,
consider
to
be
most
appropriate&dquo;.
We now have the complete portrait of
Similarly, it would have been helpful to
doom and gloom as Dave Burnham (PJ
have seen some evidence to support the
Dec ’81) sees it; his language instructs of
statement that the structure &dquo;militates
his vision:
&dquo;melancholy&dquo;, &dquo;disillusion-
against the use of potential&dquo; - &dquo;to
ment&dquo;, &dquo;confidence low&dquo;, &dquo;role strip-
think, to innovate, to contribute to the
ping&dquo;,
&dquo;scepticism&dquo;, &dquo;deskilling&dquo; and
stock of knowledge and expertise&dquo; and
&dquo;doomed&dquo;.
Bottoms and McWilliams
some implicit suggestions that the present
&dquo;have come closest to offering hope to
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