Director's Blog
What every PCC should know
Posted on: Wednesday 11 Jul 2012
Category: News
Abie Longstaff, Legal and Policy Analyst at the Police Foundation takes a look at what she thinks are the four things every good PCC should know.
PCCs will have to hit the ground running. After election, in addition to setting the budget and precept within a matter of weeks, they will have to deliver a Policing and Crime Plan by the end of March 2013. Alongside these daunting tasks, they must quickly build effective relationships with the Chief Constable, other partners and the local community. The temptation will be to deal with what is urgent, rather than what is important. But once the urgent is tackled, PCCs will have the chance to focus on the longer-term.
Read Abie's article which was included in a Local Government Association bulletin for prospective police and crime commissioners.
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Director, John Graham
Director, John Graham offers his personal views on some of the big policing issues of the day . Appointed Director of the Police Foundation in 2005, John's voice is one of the few independent sources of information and expertise in the field of policing, uninfluenced by the vested interests of party politics or the Police Service.
He has previously worked as a civil servant in Government (Home Office, Cabinet Office) and writes frequently on policing and related issues, especially youth crime and criminal justice.
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