Even though we have reduced ASB by 59 per cent across Gloucestershire, I want us to tackle the rest, plus all the ASB that doesn’t get reported. That is why I have made substantial investments to improve the performance of our 101 non-emergency service.
Curb the demonstrations. Cut the admin. Don’t require police attendance at household incidents where they has been no crime. The policing degree should be scrapped. A police equivalent of Sandhurst should be introduced.
Only by re-electing me, having delivered on my promises to you, can we save our stations.
Many of our criminal justice partners would prefer me to focus on ‘out of court disposals’. But for some offenders, and their victims, a custodial sentence is the proper outcome.
So, before you click to buy reduced price perfumes online, hand over cash in the pub for a power tool, or pick up cheap canned food at your car boot sale, ask yourself where it came from?
The public are more intelligent when it comes to public spending than may politicians give them credit for, and they know the difference between organisations that waste money and those that don’t.
Victims are taken seriously and placed at the centre of the system. My proudest achievement has been the establishment of an excellent victims’ hub called Beacon which ensures that all victims of crime in Hertfordshire get the support they need. This gain has not been won easily.
The strange but true tale of the unjust application of a Community Resolution Order – a growing means of dealing with low level offences that can have serious consequences for employment.
The NHS which has seen its productivity collapse, and is facing enormous cost pressures as the population ages, must surely be first in line for the application of the tools as they emerge.
Prisoners are skilled up to build the homes we most desperately need. These are modular, so can be built in factories with prisoners on day release – and are Net Zero, so are affordable and sustainable.
In one of our market towns, 80 per cent of drug county lines have been closed down in six months by our excellent police. Drug-driven shoplifting has nosedived.
Social media is regularly awash with Brits understandably expressing their fury at violent criminals receiving risible sentences. People are now even hesitant to report crime because they feel, given the poor likelihood of justice, it is no longer worth the hassle.
When I came into office, Anti-Social Behaviour was the top concern of many residents and had not been prioritised.
Having seen the work my team and colleagues across the country do, I have no doubt that the public are best served by those who they can hold fully accountable.
Public confidence is at stake, with low-level criminality continuing to etch away at police credibility. Swinging the needle may prove difficult, but the hollowing out of neighbourhood policing cannot continue.