Mind How You Go

We need a return to preventative policing based on foot patrols, with budgetary sanctions against recalcitrant Chief Constables, and with Police Forces at least no larger than at present.

Those Forces must be subject to local democratic accountability. And that accountability must be though Police Authorities composed predominantly of councillors, not by means of elected sheriffs, which, 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.

As surely as elected sheriffs are incompatible with fiscal responsibility. On what sort of platform do you think that anyone would ever win any such election? On only one sort of platform, ever.