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Police Summer Conference: Theresa May speech; Theresa May speech (continued) SOT- But as well as giving more power to local people, we are also giving more power to individual police officers / That is what I mean when I talk about “the deal”: more freedom to do your work, in exchange for greater accountability to local people / Police officers are the professionals / You are the ones with experience, training and expertise / You should be given back the discretion to do what you think is right / So here, again, decisions need to be devolved down / The old approach of controlling everything from the centre with targets, initiatives and bureaucracy took power and discretion away from chiefs and your officers / It created a culture of dependence that discourages senior managers from realising their full potential as leaders / It treated you as little more than box tickers, form fillers, administrators / We take a different approach / We trust the police / We know you are the experts at fighting crime / So we will give you the flexibility to manage your forces / And we will give your officers the discretion to do the right thing / This is about taking power from the centre, and giving it back to you and your officers / So, for Chiefs, that means giving you more flexibility to spend your money as you see fit, by ending all the ring-fenced funds, save only for counter-terrorism / It means looking at Tom Winsor’s proposals to help you put in place modern management practices, manage your budgets, and maximise officer and staff deployment to the frontline / And it means stopping government telling you how to do your jobs by scrapping the Policing Pledge and confidence target, the PSA targets, the key performance indicators and the Local Area Agreements / Instead I’ve given you just one objective – to cut crime / When the tragic shootings in Cumbria and Northumbria happened, I didn’t respond by calling you all to Whitehall for a gun crime summit / I respond...