Reading Time: 3 minutes Next month will bring us the 2016 elections for Police and Crime Commissioners. At this precise moment I have no idea how they will go. Most areas have Local Authority Elections on the same day which will hopefully improve the turnout over the 2012 disaster, but who knows, time will tell. The government seem to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there lived a Police and Crime Commissioner. As part of Crime Commissioning duties he dcided to invest some of his budget in a private company. An innovative new company has been set-up by the PCC in conjunction with local prisons, with the aim of reducing
Reading Time: 4 minutes There has been a lot of comment on Twitter recently to the effect that ex Police Officers should not stand for election in the forthcoming PCC Eelections in May. Why not? Who CAN stand in a hope of being elected? ALMOST ANYONE. To be able to stand as a candidate at a Police and Crime
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just 2 months to go until possibly one of the most important elections in recent years.The elections for Police and Crime Commissioner. Local Authority and Mayoral elections (where applicable) are being held on the same date and hopefully this will improve the turnout. Unlike in 2012 , when the last PCC elections were held, Police
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hear ye, hear ye, at 11 o’clock this morning it will be announced that our very own Mike Pannett will be standing for election to the post of Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire. Needless to say he will be standing as an Independent candidate, free from the shackles and interference of Party Politics.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Strange things happen. We used to have Police Authorities, even the Met had one eventually. Then some bright spark at a well known Think Tank came up with PCCs. Needless to say, most of the elected PCCs represent one political party or another, the Independents have a particularly hard time of it. My old friends
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mr David Cameron and his Cabinet Office (Other brands of Pork Pie are most certainly available). Who are the Cabinet Office and who has eaten all the pies? And what was this terrible Pork Pie? At the risk of ‘banging on about it’ the alleged Pork Pie is the withholding of funding for candidates
