Police and Crime Commissioner elections

@momentaryloss wrote:

@jen_jen wrote:

Well tomorrow in England and Wales we get to vote for our very one Police and Crime Commissioner…are we all excited? Do we know what we’re voting for? Do you know who your candidates are? Will you be voting? Does anyone care?

Oh dear – I think that may be no six times.

Well I kinda know what it is but I really don’t think that a democratic election is the best way to choose these people.

We have councils for that kind of thing. Are we turning into the United States? We will be electing the head of the Crown Prosecution Service next and calling people District Attorneys.

More elections doesn’t mean more democracy if there isn’t an informed choice.

And elections aren’t cheap, but then that would only matter if there was some kind of financial crisis. . . . . .

How am I supposed to vote?

Who are the candidates?

Which one likes Pandas?

@kent f OBE wrote:

Not sure on the thinking behind this…
Why are we voting for a Commissioner? Is it when we complain on Police matters we will be told we voted him/her in so it’s our fault? Will he/she make promises then completely ignore them and do what they want to do instead? …I’m seeing a pattern here..
Give the people the power to vote so they think they live in a democracy and have a say in changing things for the positive then ignore promises to make good…balls everything up…cruise the rest of your term with high wages
The following elections will be more or less the same scenario but every so often we will hear “I am still clearing up the mess from the previous Commissioner”
Yes I’m voting…even if it’s just for the hell of it :lol:

then again……if there’s a number on the voting card they’ll know if you bothered or not to vote…….if you call out the police and you didn’t vote maybe they wont bother turning up?……….just a thought

@panda12 wrote:

Does anyone know how we vote?

Take your voting card (you should have had one by now)..make your way to your polling station either by car or foot…place an X in the box of preferred candidate…leave the polling station…at this point you can either go home or to a destination of your choice

:lol: