Choose My PCC

This week, on Thursday, we are expected to elect a Commissioner to advise the local police constabulary on policy and policing priorities.

Last week we received one of their standard flyer communications to the public. Now I have to ask, what hope is there, and what faith can we have in the ability of the PCC when the job of putting together a simple leaflet cannot be successfully accomplished. The item I received through my letterbox is a waste of rate payers money - an obvious photo copy, somebody had done the photo copying double sided but had alternately flipped the copy along short and long edges, meaning that when put together it didn't read from start to finish but every which way.

Now one can suggest that somebody should check communications to the public, but once elected we cannot in any way check the work that the PCC (or the police) are doing.

This election is pointless and simply adds another layer of cost and bureaucracy to the policing in this country. And it is not as if these appointments will reduce the jobless in the country because these people already have paid jobs, so now they will have 2, with an even higher standard of living. It doesn't seem right on any level.