Post by walterpaisley on May 3, 2024 19:55:58 GMT
A friend has just won the election for Derbyshire'Police and Crime Commissioner - and I'm going to be dining out on my own part in making it happen!
She's always had Public Service in her DNA anyway (councillor, etc), and about a year or so back she ran this vague idea of going for PCC past me .
Problem is, I know next to nothing about the sharp end of coppering, but - by a strange coincidence - I happen to know someone who does..
So I put her in a restaurant with D.C Eldest Son and a friend from Mr Burnham's policing team in Greater Manchester, and they gave her chapter and verse on being a copper, the changing nature of policing, the issues of the job, what the public expect, what budgets allow.. And then DCES set her up with colleagues in Derbyshire (he's South Yorkshire), so she could see more local issues in depth. (And she has - she's taken her "research" very seriously).
It's not going to be an easy ride - Derbyshire is very rural for the most part (there are unique "countryside" law and order issues), but with urban areas, and areas of great deprivation, that throw the problems of drugs, poverty, gang violence, etc, into the mix.
She'll be great. We're lucky to have her.
(Now, I just need some chum to run "do you think I'd make a good Prime Minister/England Manager/Pope?" past me, and I could make a habit of this..)
She's always had Public Service in her DNA anyway (councillor, etc), and about a year or so back she ran this vague idea of going for PCC past me .
Problem is, I know next to nothing about the sharp end of coppering, but - by a strange coincidence - I happen to know someone who does..
So I put her in a restaurant with D.C Eldest Son and a friend from Mr Burnham's policing team in Greater Manchester, and they gave her chapter and verse on being a copper, the changing nature of policing, the issues of the job, what the public expect, what budgets allow.. And then DCES set her up with colleagues in Derbyshire (he's South Yorkshire), so she could see more local issues in depth. (And she has - she's taken her "research" very seriously).
It's not going to be an easy ride - Derbyshire is very rural for the most part (there are unique "countryside" law and order issues), but with urban areas, and areas of great deprivation, that throw the problems of drugs, poverty, gang violence, etc, into the mix.
She'll be great. We're lucky to have her.
(Now, I just need some chum to run "do you think I'd make a good Prime Minister/England Manager/Pope?" past me, and I could make a habit of this..)
