Police leadership needs 'ethical reset', Lord Blunkett tells BBC

Police leadership needs 'ethical reset', Lord Blunkett tells BBCTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Watch: Former home secretary says the police service "is not good enough"ByLaura Kuenssberg, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg  and Jessica RawnsleyPublished1 minute agoThe police service in England and Wales is "not good enough" and its leadership needs an "ethical reset", Lord Blunkett has said.Speaking exclusively to the BBC ahead of the publication of a major report he co-authored on police leadership, the former Labour home secretary said its findings point to weaknesses in leadership, morale and culture across the service.The report, to be published on Monday, will conclude there are "significant causes for concern" and that police leadership requires a "fundamental overhaul"."At the moment, the service isn't good enough," Lord Blunkett said. "At the moment, the morale and motivation of many of those working in the service needs a reset."The report, produced along with the former Conservative policing minister Lord Herbert for the College of Policing, will recommend a "root and branch modernisation" of recruitment, development and monitoring within the service.The "comprehensive" review of police leadership was commissioned to ensure the service could respond to evolving threats and deliver government targets, the College of Policing said, in the face of declining public confidence in policing.None of the 43 police forces in England and Wales were graded "outstanding" for leadership in the most recent inspection round. Almost a third were rated as needing improvement, and two as inadequate.Lord Blunkett told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the evidence gathered during the review pointed to "a very large number of those at senior level who have been or...