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Which is why it doesn't seem right that the PCC election became a political contest. The police are servants of the Crown, not the Government. I still happen to think there's value in that. Katy Bourne isn't going to say or do anything that this Government don't already advocate. Nor is she just...

Can she sack me? No, therefore I'm quite happy to state that she's not my boss. The issues these PCCs will be telling their forces to concentrate on are almost without exception the exact things they're all supposed to be concentrating on anyway- neighbourhood policing being a prime example...

Nope. Does she have any power to tell me to go out and arrest somebody? No she doesn't.

Double post. Computer playing silly arses.

She's a Conservative. We have a Conservative government (essentially). Is she going to start pushing anything on a local level that the Government don't already promote? I doubt that very much. She's also not going to have any real influence on an operational level, that's to say how things are...

She's not my boss. I answer to the lady in my avatar, and on a slightly more local level, the Chief Constable. She may be his boss, but she's not mine.

Out of a population, according to Wikipedia, of approximately 1.4 million. Not all of whom will be of voting age, of course.

Wouldn't worry too much about it, folks, do you actually think it's going to make much difference to anything?