vote for election of the police and crime commissioner

[biggs682]

we had our voting cards arrive yesterday for the above election , have seen some ads on tv . but as of moment now flyers or knocks on door , so how do you choose who to vote for .

any other cc ers got any comments on this important election

 

[ohnovino]

The frontrunners for Merseyside are an expenses fiddling ex-MP and an ex-councillor who was booted out at the last local elections.

If turnout gets over 20% I'll be amazed.

 

[Night Train]

Only one voting card delivered, for my Mum. Mine and Dad's seem not to have arrived. I think we can still vote, if we take ID.

We have a two independents, a Labour MP, a Tory Mayor, a UKIP person and a Police inspector with 30 years experience.

I think I know who I would go for to run the Police force.

 

[vernon]

I thought that the deadline for applications from the candidates has only just closed hence no literature.

A seventeen percent turnout has been predicted by some political pundits.

 

[Headgardener]

So is this commissaire person above or below a chief constable as the ads don't explain this very clearly?

 

[Typhon]

http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/
Canidate information available on the 26th. I'll have a look again then to find out who my local candidates are.

 

[Baggy]

Only one voting card delivered, for my Mum. Mine and Dad's seem not to have arrived. I think we can still vote, if we take ID.

As long as you're on the register, you can vote. No need to take ID.

 

[Arch]

Only one voting card delivered, for my Mum. Mine and Dad's seem not to have arrived. I think we can still vote, if we take ID.

We have a two independents, a Labour MP, a Tory Mayor, a UKIP person and a Police inspector with 30 years experience.

I think I know who I would go for to run the Police force.

The UKIP guy, right?

I've got my card, no clue about candidates yet. I'll vote, because I always do. You can't complain, if you haven't bothered to vote.

 

[Night Train]

As long as you're on the register, you can vote. No need to take ID.

Cards delivered late on today, one of the neighbours put two cards through our door and my DSS appointment letter.
Out Postie must be on holiday!

 

[Night Train]

I'll vote, because I always do. You can't complain, if you haven't bothered to vote.

I just can't understand people who don't bother voting, they seem to also be the ones who have the most to say about it too!

 

[Arch]

I think women especially ought to vote, given how hard some worked (and died) for our right to do so. But the same applies to any man who isn't aristocracy really, given the fact that once upon a time you only got to vote if you were a man who owned a large amount of property.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I think women especially ought to vote, given how hard some worked (and died) for our right to do so. But the same applies to any man who isn't aristocracy really, given the fact that once upon a time you only got to vote if you were a man who owned a large amount of property.

Quite right.......though I have never understood how the suffragettes got the vote by throwing themselves under horses....they should have thrown the politicians under the horses!

 

[Drago]

I shan't be voting for 2 reasons;

1). Virtually all the candidates are political affiliates, and I am not happy about the politicisation of the police that this represents.

2). They ate to a man all utter tools. They call think they going to be running the show, doing this, that and the other. In actual fact they're remit will be broadly similar to the existing police authorities, setting budgets, agreeing strategic targets, administrative functions, etc. none of them will have any powers whatsoever to "get all the malingerers out from behind their desks" etc, and other such ridiculous claims.

It's scary that one of these people is going to end up in a position of trust and authority. The one consation is that the Chief Constables will continue to run the forces and constabularies, NOT these powerless ego trippers.

 

[classic33]

Question for those on here that are in the polices force/service,
How will adding another layer of office sitters(bureaucracy) within the police help matters. Someone has to pay for this, unless the money is going to be pulled out of a hat, at a time when every force is having to make cutbacks due to shortages in money(spending)?
Also, are PCSO's coming under the sole control of the elected persons office & system. If so how will that impact on day to day operations within the police.

I'm aware that there are a increasing number of police officers that do not like either the specials or the PCSO's. But when the majority of the officers you see are either of these two, they are your "face" of the police.

 

[Drago]

In effect they'll be replacing the police authorities with a single person, so from an operational perspective zero difference. They'll have much the same remit, responsibilities and limited powers of the old police authorities, but vested in a single elected person.

Despite what sone of these people think, they will not be running any police forces.

Certainly where I work the relationship between Specials, PCSOs and Officers is very positive. Nationally police officers outnumber PCSOs around 13 to 1, so the reality is that they are still one of the least visible faces of policing.