November 10, 2015 10.04 am
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Conservative PCC candidate criticises Alan Hardwick for ‘squandering cash’ on Chief Constable suspension
On the offensive: The Conservative candidate in next year’s Police and Crime Commissioner elections has criticised the current PCC over the suspension of the Chief Constable.
Lincolnshire County Councillor Marc Jones, the Conservative Lincolnshire PCC candidate
The Conservative candidate in next year’s Police and Crime Commissioner election has said that the current PCC has “a lot to answer for” after suspending the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police two years ago.
The suspension, judicial review and subsequent reinstatement of the Chief Constable was estimated to have cost taxpayers more than £165,000.
Councillor Jones said:
“The current Police Commissioner has a lot to answer for after squandering cash on the unnecessary suspension of the Chief Constable – this money should have been spent on frontline policing.”
Councillor Marc Jones writing a letter to Home Secretary Theresa May campaigning for a fairer police funding deal for Lincolnshire
The county councillor for Bracebridge and Executive Member for Finance and Property on Lincolnshire County Council has also written to Home Secretary, Theresa May, saying that the force deserves additional funds to fight crime.
He added: “The complex system doesn’t work for us, we are just too big a county, and that is why I have written to the Home Secretary asking for more money for Lincolnshire as part of the current review into police funding.
“When isolated farming communities are being targeted by organised criminal gangs we need to ensure we have the resource to bring the perpetrators to a swift justice.”
Councillor Jones has argued for a new settlement that takes into account the ‘base cost’ of running a rural force such as the extra time spent running police vehicles when compared with urban constabularies.
However, the Home Office has admitted that the proposed new funding formula for police forces in England and Wales was based on flawed calculations, with the old formula likely to be retained for a further year because of this error.
Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Hardwick. Photo Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Alan Hardwick was contacted by The Lincolnite but chose not to respond to the comments made by Marc Jones.
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Residents have slammed a Home Office engagement meeting regarding its plans for the RAF Scampton asylum centre, labelling it “propaganda.”
The government agency scheduled two sessions at the Lincolnshire Showground for Thursday evening: the first targeted local residents identified as vulnerable by the Department for Health and Social Care, and the second was for local business owners. However, attendees left the meetings visibly annoyed.
Anyone who does a lap of Lincoln High Street will have noticed a number of odd tarmac fillings on the pedestrianised area, which stick out like a sore thumb given how they are weaved between brickwork and cobbled areas.
We have put these to the county council to find out why they have been done, and if we can expect them to return to a more consistent look in-keeping with the area.
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