February 8, 2017 12.19 pm
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Watch: New Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable on officer numbers, sex offenders and cannabis
A week on from starting in his new role as Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police, Bill Skelly said that he’s preparing to make Lincoln his new home. Bill told The Lincolnite on Wednesday, February 8, that he has had a ‘thoroughly good time’ in his first week as chief constable for Lincolnshire Police. The new chief said that the biggest…
Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Bill Skelly. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
A week on from starting in his new role as Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police, Bill Skelly said that he’s preparing to make Lincoln his new home.
Bill told The Lincolnite on Wednesday, February 8, that he has had a ‘thoroughly good time’ in his first week as chief constable for Lincolnshire Police.
The new chief said that the biggest strategic difficulty himself and Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones will have in the coming years will be the amount of resources they will have as a force.
He said: “I will be very keen to try and maintain what we can in relation to the number of people and to distribute them according to where the threat and the harm is the greatest.”
He said there are a huge number of similarities in Lincolnshire to Devon, where he was deputy chief constable, and to the east coast of Scotland and Scotland as a whole.
Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Bill Skelly. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Bill told The Lincolnite that there is an increasing demand in sexual offending and a lot of this links to historic cases that a ‘still very real for the victim’.
He also mentioned how more needs to be done to try and reduce the opportunity for fatalities to take place on Lincolnshire roads.
Psychoactive substances, previously known as ‘legal highs’ and the use of cannabis and other drugs in the county is something he wants to look further into by working with local authorities and communities to better understand the issue.
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North East Lincolnshire has become the first upper-tier council to approve a devolution deal for Greater Lincolnshire, despite multiple concerns raised by opposition members.
Councillors voted on the deal, which would see a mayor elected for a new authority covering Lincolnshire, North and North East Lincolnshire authorities. This new setup will control funding for housing, job creation, and public transport, including buses.
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.
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