This is... well. When you look at the details of this the story is really about how the minister wants modernize the police IT systems so that lots of currently

This is... well. When you look at the details of this the story is really about how the minister wants modernize the police IT systems so that lots of currently disparate databases can be merged into a single queriable database. This, of course, will not happen. It will cost a fortune, it'll never be completed, and because we're less than 18months from an election, Chris Philp will never have to take responsibility for the failure. His last great acheivement was helping Liz Truss crash the UK pensions sector and getting fired after 38 days. That's right this guy has a senior role in government less than a year after getting fired for massively screwing up. On the bright side he's in exactly the sort of seat where he's likely to lose his job in the next election.