Some police officers are ‘barely literate’ because the educational standards required to join the service are so low, it was claimed last night.
Tom Winsor, the lawyer reviewing police conditions, said reading, writing and mathematical skills have fallen ‘significantly’ since the 1930s.
He suggested that the public could be at risk if poor academic skills damage the effectiveness of potentially vital evidence.
Mr Winsor said criminal barristers sometimes ‘speak in contemptuous terms’ of the ‘barely literate’ quality of police evidence.
While checking and rewriting poor quality paperwork was increasing the cost and bureaucracy of policing.
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