Policy Police
Volume II. Number 3.
Up Close and Personalised. Episode 3.
I decided we’d
better move out of
the flat. You don’t
see much Summary
Justice in the
streets around
there, but I thought
a new address would
be safer.

I don’t think they’d use
helicopters around
here, it’d worry the
neighbours.
Like it wouldn’t
worry the working
girls upstairs
from where we
are now.
They’re not…
.. Are they?
Pffft.

Still, it’d be good
if we’re out of
there before Zee
gets her feet back
under her desk.

You’ve found a
tenant?
Kelly in
finance.
…and you’re
making a profit?
He’s an
accountant. He
wouldn’t have it
any other way.

…and he gets a
vicarious thrill
out of being close
to my world.
Your world is
so glamorous?
Compared to an
accountant, it is.

Back at the office…
About this
consultation?
There’s been some
opposition to the
national roll-out that
has to be neutralised…

That’s
consultation?
It’s about getting
people used to the
idea. So we ask them
how they want it
implemented.

Used to know a guy
like that. He’d ask
how you’d like him to
deliver a fist in the
teeth.
And if you
didn’t answer?
He’d punch you
in the teeth
Sounds about
right.

Okay. But
what’s it all
about.
The Goodfellow
parenting laws.
Goodfellow?

Granville
Goodfellow. The
expert who drafted
the new parenting
laws.
He established the
principle, “You can
look, but you can’t
touch”.

A child
development
expert?
No. He’s had
about 30 years
experience in the
civil service.
An expert
bureaucrat.

An expert in
drawing up
legislation.
… and what does
that legislation
create?

The Parenting
Inspectorate.
More
bureaucrats.

You gotta learn
how these people
operate, F.
You make them
sound like the
enemy.

Sure as hell ain’t
my friends.

Listen to this.
“Though the development
and deployment of this plan
is through in-level actions
owned by The Agency and
its partners to support
change in the sector…
…the implementation of this
change ultimately belongs to those
leading and delivering the services
on the front line.”

I mean … do
people read this
stuff.
They ought to.
Especially if
they’re going to
sign it.

Worse. Somebody
wrote it. “Heads
I win, tails you
lose.”

Crafted by a
true bureaucrat.

That’s what I’ve
been trying to tell
you for the last
half hour.
To be continued…