Friday 27 April 2012

Mind How You Go

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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