A Genius in our Time:

In yet another bout of inspiration, the great John Reid has identified a general solution to any situation where there is more work to do than people to do it:

1. Farm out the work to people who are not supposed to do it and are not trained to do it. If you can possibly use the people who generate the work in the first place, all the better as it will stop them generating any more work.
2. Ensure that the system for getting the work done is as inefficient as possible and hope that a lot of it falls through the cracks.
3. If all else fails, just stop doing the work.

The innovation of the Home Office is unparalleled. With half of Blandmore's custody space full of remand prisoners who should be in jail, most of the things I complain about are solved:

We no longer have the problem of over-crowding in the briefing room, as half the shift are working 12-hr gaoler duties in the custody block.

We can no longer arrest people as there isn't room for them. For an account of how little we police really need our cells, see here.

We no longer have to remand people in custody as there isn't space, so no more late-night remand files.

We can no longer attend crappy harassments and petty assaults because there aren't even enough of us to attend crimes that are in progress.

Some say that John Reid has lost his marbles, I say we are merely witnessing one of the great minds of our time.

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