form-filling

How much computer-generated form-filling did all your stuff generate and how many hours off the beat will it take to complete it all for the inevitable evidential statistical returns?

What Really Matters At The Top « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Worst of all, it has left patients and carers bewildered by bureaucracy, form-filling and often big bills, as they are – in the committee's phrase – "passed like a parcel from one part of the system to another".

Health and social care bill: A dismal alternative to real reform | Editorial 2012

Harry Fletcher, of the probation union Napo, said it was scandalous probation staff spent 75% of their time on 'form-filling'.

Probation officers spend 75% of time not dealing with offenders, report finds 2011

I agree with you that “common sense policing” is the ideal, but I place much of the blame for the form-filling on the shoulders of the defence lawyers, who rely on looking for loopholes in procedure to get their clients off.

The Smooth And Efficient Running Of A Police Station « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

The human touch has become subordinate to a form-filling bureaucracy.

GPs can't cope with the elderly alone. They need support | The big issue 2011

It is scandalous that probation staff now spend 75% of their time on form-filling and responding to centrally driven emails.

Probation officers spend 75% of time not dealing with offenders, report finds 2011

I'd remember the scores of little schemes and incentives and tax allowances that Gordon Brown extended to business, hoping to push it where he thought it should go, and all the distortion and confusion and form-filling that they produced.

Ed Miliband's New Labour economics Eamonn Butler 2010

Asda was among the retailers which called for scrapping of the rule, because it forces staff to concentrate on form-filling rather than the shop floor.

'Red-tape challenge' to liberate retailers from archaic regulations 2011

People who complained about Panorama's travesty of a documentary on the deaths caused when Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza aid flotilla, had to go through an obstacle course of form-filling and stonewalling.

BBC is 'confusing cause and effect' in its Israeli coverage 2011

They are only ever used in two situations: form-filling, or news about rock stars' children.

Let it all out. Well, sometimes | Victoria Coren 2011