What’s the point of Police and Crime Commissioners? Many will know my view, there is no point! I don’t necessarily blame individual Police and Crime Commissioners, indeed the fact our own Tony Hogg is not standing for re-election suggests that he does not see the point either. I know that he feels the funding to DevonRead More »
Cllr Sue James debut on Sunday Politics show this coming Sunday. BBC political reporter, Tamsin Melville, invited me to the recording studio today to take part in a piece called ‘Police and Crime Commissioners, 2 years on.’ Tamsin wanted to know why I set up the petition to bring an end to the post and understandRead More »
Please support the campaign to cancel the Police & Crime Commissioner elections in 2016 and help me send a strong message to the Government that Police Commissioners are unwanted. I am calling on the Government to cancel Police & Crime Commissioner elections in 2016. With only my local efforts the petition calling on the Government toRead More »
Information Commissioner Investigating PCC Tony Hogg: Ms Howl was the former Chief Exec of the Police Authority but left less than a year after the new Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg took up his post. Officially, this was ‘to pursue other challenges’. Alex Folkes, Deputy Leader of the LibDem group onRead More »
On Friday, I traveled to Plymouth for the Police and Crime Panel, a sort of scrutiny committee for the work of the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner. The main agenda items were to update the Police and Crime Plan and to consider the level of precept (how much is needed from Council tax)Read More »
A letter in the Cornishman last week was asking what benefit we have gained from having the elected post of Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner? I read it before setting off to a Police and Crime Panel meeting where I get the opportunity to scrutinise what he and his office are doing. IRead More »
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