Reading Time: 2 minutes Just for once I’m not referring to myself but somebody else, honest, and You’ve Been A Very Naughty Boy. I have been so caught up with COVID-19 and the myriad of other things going on that I took my eye completely off the AB1 ball. Some of you will no doubt remember that some time […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Forget #Brexit, this is much closer to home and just as gripping to some of us. Before I go any further, beacuase I’m a fair kind of person, I must point out the collaboration between Warwickshire and West Mercia Police Forces came into being in 2012, the present encumbent in West Mercia, my old adversary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear Mr Campion, You have been the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner for several years now, and as you know the world of Policing has suffered some savage cuts brought about, mainly, by Mrs Theresa May. ince 2010. Policing as a whole has lost approximately 21,000 officers in total across England and Wales. How
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Reading Time: < 1 minute My good friend Dr Ben (not ??) recently suggested that I should go away and write another blog about car registration plates, so I have, not just to please Dr Ben but to highlight a potential concern. I have previously made a request of the West Mercia PCC to obtain copies of the decision about
Reading Time: 5 minutes Much has been said about PCCs in general, and by a certain section of the population, about politically affiliated PCCs. Opinion is divided about PCCs, do we need them? Are they Value For Money? Well something has to take the place of the now-defunct Police Authorities but the fact that many PCCs are firmly affiliated
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Well, strictly speaking, not the car but the Registration Mark. At various times the actual car has looked like this:- And now, in 2017, after all this history, it has gone. Having been in the ownership of West Mercia Constabulary for over a Hundred Years, the Registration Mark has been sold. At least it must
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some time ago, you may remember, I posed the question whether it was approriate that one of our more northerly PCCs paid the ACPO membership fees. http://retiredandangry.thisistap.com/2016/05/24/tory-pcc-expenses-foi-raise-their-ugly-heads-again/ I got a very fuzzy reply from the PCC concerned, that it was all a mistake and had come out of the wrong budget, still hasn’t been replaced
Reading Time: 3 minutes That is the question…… Some of you will know that I was going to stand for the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Mercia until Call Me Dave and the Cabinet Office tilted the playing field against Independent candidates. Many of you will know that I subsequently applied for the position of Deputy Police and
Reading Time: 2 minutes During the run-up to the recent Police And Crime Commissioner Elections I noticed what I thought was a disparity in the incumbent North Yorkshire PCC’s published expenses. In 2013 it included an entry for >£10,000 for ACPO fees. As PCCs are not members of ACPO so should not pay membership fees (Association of PCCs fees
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Has anybody here seen Julia Mulligan since the PCC Elections? She seems to have gone walkabout, or at least her office has in FOIWorld. 31st March, I posed a simple question (or at least I thought it was) Dear North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, I notice from the Commissioner’s published expenses an entry on
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