Three cheers for Tony Melville, who has resigned
as Chief Constable of Gloucestershire in protest at the creation of directly
elected Police Commissioners.
We need the police to
be subject to local democratic accountability. Of course we do. But though
police authorities composed predominantly of councillors, not by means of
elected sheriffs.
Those, like directly
elected mayors, have no place in a parliamentary rather than a presidential res publica, and are wholly incompatible
with the defence, restoration and extension of the powers of jurors,
magistrates and parliamentarians.
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