Police Commisioner Elections : November 2012

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Oh it'll be fiiiiiine

Maybe initially, but not for long. Bringing the political supervision of the police into the limelight (which is what can't not happen given personal electoral mandates) will have consequences, and they will probably not be the sort that are well liked. It's only a matter of time before there are calls for the system to be 'reformed'.

Fundamentally, the current system (the police authority model) is a bad system, but it's not bad enough to require an urgent overhaul and it hasn't been without its better features.

I agree with Al.  This is a seriously bad idea which should never have got out of whichever think tank dreamed it up.  Running police should be left to the professionals.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

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Ray Mallon as police commissioner for Cleveland.  Cat, meet pigeons.

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(facepalm)

These are intended to be people with real power.  I don't want my police force to be run by a drag act.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

That's not what's happening in Greater Manchester - the ballot papers are being verified in each borough but all the actual counting is taking place at the G-Mex Manchester Central the following day.

In order to reduce costs the returning officer recruited the entire counting team from the Salford mayoral election in May, as they are the only people in Greater Manchester with experience of counting SV; then the returning officer decided to spend money training SV to all the counters, including the Salford team.