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Category Archives: Police & Crime Commissioner
Don’t overlook years of hardwork
The news today includes a focus on the vital issue of restorative justice, as a consequence of the publication of the Restorative Justice inquiry by the Parliamentary Justice Committee. According to the sub heading on the Parliament website “A legislative right for … Continue reading
Police boats and joined up thinking
The extent to which our various police services are able to cooperate and remain flexible depends on the idea that each of the 41 forces is largely autonomous but also that they are instructed to cooperate with one another using … Continue reading
Policing and Politics
When the coalition Government introduced the Police and Crime Commissioner post, many people in policing were concerned that the involvement of Party Politics in the Governance of Policing would cause problems. The extent to which Independent candidates were elected in … Continue reading
Party politics delays justice
Coming a year after the Tories failed to declare the full cost of their local election expenses in the General Election, there has been a further display of corruption by the party in power. Voters across the UK were misled by … Continue reading
We need a level playing field
The call for a level playing field for candidates in elections came this morning not from a failed embittered candidate but from Gavin Millar, QC of Matrix Chambers who is an expert in election law speaking on Radio 4 after … Continue reading
Democracy on whose terms?
The three core issues that appear to have arisen in the arguments about June’s referendum are those of democracy; ie that the EU is anti-democratic, finance; the cost of the EU to you and me and Immigration; control of our … Continue reading
Party politics and Policing shouldn’t mix
As we approach the elections on Thursday for Police and Crime Commissioner elections, every one of the candidates is involving themselves in the world of politics. By any definition holding to account a chief constable and their operational work on … Continue reading
A Mayor for Surrey & Sussex?
On Thursday all electors in England and Wales with exceptions in a few areas will be entitled to vote for their Police and Crime Commissioner. In Sussex we will have an opportunity to either re-elect Katy Bourne (Conservative) or vote … Continue reading
Unfair elections
“Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives… The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic … Continue reading
Things have actually got worse
In 2012 I was one of a significant number of Independent candidates for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Despite a modest level of publicity paid for by you and me but authorised by the Government, many voters remained at … Continue reading
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