People really care about how their local high streets and town centres look. Their physical degradation upsets them. Higher fines are needed for who dig up roads and fail to provide ‘like-for-like’ reinstatement.
Like other recent candidates, Strafford also made much of his long-standing personal connections to the area. A local source tells me he clearly “knew his stuff”.
Why am I spending taxpayers’ hard-earned cash on a larger police presence – when the rates of traditional crimes are falling?
Police forces can learn from Mark Rowley’s declaration that his officers should focus on tackling crime in the capital, rather than dealing with non-life-threatening mental health call-outs.
He has been the constituency’s MP since 1997.
Whether or not I appointed the right candidate, only time will tell, and the Surrey public will be the ultimate judge.
With households feeling the squeeze, have a duty to be smart and imaginative in making policing budgets stretch as far as possible.
It is a challenging time but we must support each other and we must communicate the value we bring to the communities we serve.
Denying the South East what it needs to grow and prosper with the misguided intention of being ‘fair’ to the rest of the country is detrimental to all in the end.
This year the 200th anniversary of Robert Peel first becoming Home Secretary. His words “The Police are the Public; the Public the Police” are as true today as they were then.
It offers the opportunity to devolve powers directly to county and unitary authorities – rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all Metro Mayor model.
In Surrey, we see middle-class activists cause great damage and disruption before getting let off the hook.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life proposed that councillors’ social media comment be included as “official capacity in their public conduct.”
Too often viewed as a victimless crime, stolen vehicles are often used for drug running and worse.