More than value, I think it's absolutely essential that the police, executive, legislature and judiciary are independent of each other and responsible to the crown. By introducing a PCC the government have blurred that independence. What would have been better would be if the candidates were...
She has the power to fire the Chief Constable so if she says "If you don't give XXX more focus, then I will bring in someone who will" then can you say for a fact the the Chief Constable won't put his job and pension first and do it ?
Can you say the same for ALL the Chief Constables ?
It could. If a PCC has a particularly strong viewpoint on something then he/she could put pressure on the chief constable to give a particular topic more focus. For example if the PCC is strongly opposed to alcohol, they may use their influence get the police to be more rigorous in their...