Why do the Police Provide the Muscle for Forced Adoptions?

In several other stories I have reported recently involving the seizure of children by social workers, the police seem to have played an extraordinarily compliant role, as in the case where six policemen and three social workers burst into a hospital ward at 3 am to wrest a new-born baby from its mother's arms with considerable force.

Why is that the police seem so ready to act on the instructions of social workers, turning up mob-handed and prepared, as in several cases I have reported, to act with what seems wholly unnecessary aggression against defenceless, loving mothers? Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Commissioner, said last week that â providing cover for social workers and other agencies' had taken the police â away from their core responsibilities'. As I continue to follow the horrifying disarray of our family protection system, the peculiar part played in it by the police is a theme to which I shall return.'

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