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Let's talk about the FSS some more
Feb. 10th, 2011 09:25 amThe FSS has stopped processing drink driving blood and urine tests and the police are scrambling to find an alternative processor.
Mmmm.
You know what else they're going to stop processing very, very soon? What takes a minimum of fifteen months, which is about how long the FSS has left? What's expensive, time-consuming and vitally important to get right?
Murder.
If the police weren't prepared for the drink driving processing to stop, then there's going to be utter chaos when murder processing stops. (And hopefully, an outcry. We're overdue one.)
If the police aren't already gearing up to take over the roles being steadily dropped by the FSS - which they should be - then this is going to go even worse than I originally anticipated. They should have been working frantically behind the scenes from the moment they knew about this.
I say it again and again: this is a terrible idea brought about by the bad consequences of an even worse idea.
There's a petition. If you're in the UK, please, go sign it. Spread the word. Because it's increasingly clear that not only can the country not function without the FSS (which has always been the case), but the country isn't trying to replace it at all.
And that cannot possibly end well.
Mmmm.
You know what else they're going to stop processing very, very soon? What takes a minimum of fifteen months, which is about how long the FSS has left? What's expensive, time-consuming and vitally important to get right?
Murder.
If the police weren't prepared for the drink driving processing to stop, then there's going to be utter chaos when murder processing stops. (And hopefully, an outcry. We're overdue one.)
If the police aren't already gearing up to take over the roles being steadily dropped by the FSS - which they should be - then this is going to go even worse than I originally anticipated. They should have been working frantically behind the scenes from the moment they knew about this.
I say it again and again: this is a terrible idea brought about by the bad consequences of an even worse idea.
There's a petition. If you're in the UK, please, go sign it. Spread the word. Because it's increasingly clear that not only can the country not function without the FSS (which has always been the case), but the country isn't trying to replace it at all.
And that cannot possibly end well.
