During a fringe event at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Birmingham, president of the Police Superintendents’ Association Derek Barnett criticised the government for dismissing comments he made about the probability of civil unrest a year before the riots occurred.
He said: "You say it is not rocket science, why didn’t we predict this? In a speech 12 months ago to the Home Secretary I did predict this and I was accused of scaremongering.
"When we look at youth, education, drugs and social policy, and all those seem to fail, then it becomes a police problem. Perhaps when it gets to be a policing problem we should go right back to the very beginning."
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