One of Dave Cameron's really stupid ideas was the setting up of Police and Crime Commissioners....41 throughout the UK.
PCC's are drawn from the ranks of deadbeat local councillors and are despised by police chiefs.
An example of their costs is a woman called Mountstevens, PCC for Avon and Somerset. She picked up £85,000 a year with a support structure cost of £1 million.
She has had two bright ideas:
1. Advising smugglers to ignore Dover and smuggle into Torquay as there is no customs presence!
2. Police sponsored 'chat bench' where the lonely can sit hoping someone will chat with them...probably conmen preying on the vulnerable...
 |
| £1million idea from the Avon & Somerset Dimwit PCC! |
The PCC for Sussex, Kathy Bourne is a laughing stock in her neck of the woods. The other day she donated £12,000 to a cats charity to help stop domestic violence....you work the connection out. Her other blunder was confusing Adur with Arun but locals have drawn up a list of her stupidities.
 |
| Dimwitted Bourne gave £12k to a cat charity |
But there is a serious side to this.
Police and Crime Commissioners cost well over a £1billion a year.
To put 20,000 extra police on the streets of London and other cities would cost just over £1billion....
Something has to give and the Dame knows what it should be.
Another debacle - law abiding citizens suffer whilst a few feather their nests!
ReplyDeleteThat the National Audit Office is concerned about the performance of these superfluous people should ring alarm bells.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the Dame is on the ball. This kind of probing is exactly what we need. Too much tax gets wasted on fripperies. I have never read a single positive word about the Crime Commissioners. But we should remember that they were appointed after a study by Parliament which was debated and then the new system was approved.
ReplyDeleteWe need to ask for a review of the initiative and if it has been a failure, then can it. And spend the money on policemen on the street