My articles about the role of PCC and wider policing matters

I have been mixed up with policing, justice and community safety matters for a nearly 25 years. And I have been writing & thinking about the Police & Crime Commissioner positions since they were first being mooted by the Conservative Party in the run up to the 2010 General Election.

To add to your understanding of the implications of these new political positions, here is a selected list of some of my contributions over the last few months. (From newest to oldest)

• PCC election purdah: Many questions to be resolved (Policing Insight 16/6/15)
• Future of PCCs: Scenarios for change (Policing Insight 3/6/15)
• 'Light touch' police and crime panels must shift scrutiny powers up a gear (Guardian 24/7/13)
• PCCs: time for a pit stop? (Policing Today 25/4/13)
• Police and crime commissioners: six pre-election questions (Guardian 23/10/12)
• Police & Crime Commissioner campaigns – it’s all to play for (LabourList 29/8/12)
• What the Tories have in mind for Police and Crime Commissioners…(LabourList 4/7/12)
• PCC Elections: Pulling out all the stops (LabourList 25/6/12)
• Police and crime commissioners: 13 more questions (Guardian 13/6/12)
• Building a campaign for real politics (Labour List 27/5/12)
• Police & Crime Commissioner elections: connecting with the margin and mainstream (Labour List 4/4/12)
• Outsourcing: where do you draw the line? (Labour List 18/3/12)
• Is increasing public sector commissioning a good thing? (Guardian 16/3/12)
• Policing is political already – why should police commissioners hide their allegiance? (Left Foot Forward 7/3/12)
• Police and Crime Commissioners: 7 questions for ‘independent’ candidates (Labour List 19/2/12)
• The Trade Union role in Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November (Labour List 13/2/12) 
• Is there a thin blue line for the new Police and Crime Commissioners? (Labour List 9/2/12)
• Ten questions for potential police and crime commissioners (Guardian 30/1/12)
• My blog link to the Guardian article where people could post comments and discussions (My professional blog 30/1/12)
• We need to start campaigning now for the Police Crime Commissioners (Labour List 17/10/11)
• Police Crime Commissioners – what might be in their manifestos? (Labour List 31/8/11)
• 13 questions to help you believe in the government's NHS listening exercise (Guardian 7/4/11) (an article about good... and bad consultation processes - and we know what happened in the end!)
• Police: who will be the leader? (My blog 14/1/11)
• Ten ways to keep the peace (Guardian 13/9/10)