Who has put the Politically Correct handcuffs on the police?

It seems to many, that the police have lost the confidence of decent folk in our communities these troubled times. We can certainly see the open conflict between cops that don't want to police the streets by the up stairs political agenda, and the liberal courts that deal in 'Let them off policy'. The police no longer have that majority confidence once enjoyed with the whole community. Community policing once mentioned with a sense of British pride has vanished from most communities, the police are policing our streets with no real sense of communication with the wider public. It comes as a real shock to those that can remember the policeman on the beat, to the now politically correct policeman in a fast car. Not all change is a good thing, I fear that our modern policing force is just another tool in which to hit us all over the head with more politically correct instructions from on high in government. When residents in Dukinfield tell about visits from the police on election day telling them to take down BNP election posters from their own windows, then I know I'm not going mad. The police have no right to advise people to take down my election posters from their windows. But yes it did happen in Dukinfield in 2008, the police took on that roll of a political police force. I am not anti-police, but they did interfere in the local elections here in Dukinfield by asking residents to take down my election posters, and that cannot be ignored in any free democratic society.