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Would you rather have uniformed police officers doing the admin work? And what do you mean by "being employed for the sake of it"? Surely SOMEONE has to be employed to sort out ordering and paying for equipment, dealing with payroll enquiries and sick leave, managing the fleet of vehicles...

The FACT is that any plan by a Tory Prime Minister and a Tory Home Secretary to tighten their grip on police forces (especially on spending) by increasing the "powers" of the PCCs in their heartlands has just fallen out of the window - because the unconvinced voters have failed to deliver Tory...

Interesting that Sussex is a beacon of blue in the otherwise independent South East. The PCC elections in Kent, Surrey and Hampshire have all seen Independent candidates defeat the Tories.

Nowhere as good as the voters in Bettws, Newport - where, at one polling station, the turnout was ... NO-ONE. Interestingly (or possibly not) ... Bettws is where John Frost was married. Who he? The leader of the Chartist movement which demanded Votes For All. Frost led the 1839 Newport...

Turnout figures for each district:- Adur District – Adur 6,747 from 48,517 – 13.91% Arun District – 16,829 from 113,392 – 14.84% Brighton and Hove – 31,510 from 209,007 – 15.08% Chichester District – 14,972 from 92,241 – 16.23% Crawley Borough- 11,082 from 78,657 – 14.09% Eastbourne...

Brighton and Hove City Council result after the first count:- Godfrey Daniel (L) – 11,082 Katy Bourn (C) – 7,146 Ian Chisnall (Ind) – 6,467 Tony Armstrong (UKIP) – 2,925. David Rogers (LD) – 2,615

Spoilt ballot breakdown for Sussex. Rejected for want of official mark – 4 More than one candidate given as first preference – 1,798 Mark or writing leading to identification of voter – 82 Unmarked first preference – 1,590 Void for uncertainty about first preference – 2,508. Total...

Candidate standings after the first vote Katy Bourne, Conservative – 31% Godfrey Daniel, Labour – 22% Ian Chisnall, Independent – 21% Tony Armstrong, UKIP – 15% David Rogers, Liberal Democrat – 11%

Conservative Katy Bourne wins the second vote beating Labour's Godfrey Daniel to become police commissioner with 80,028 votes.