If you think more than 1 person should hold the police to account spoil your ballot!

The post of Police Commissioner is designed by politicians for politicians. £85,000 pa for an inexperienced figure head is an insult to the struggling taxpayer. More than that it's downright daylight robbery. I am reminded of the days when the upper class treated the rest of us as peasants. In short the post of Commissioner on such a high salary is immoral, disgusting and scandalous.

[points 5-8 Spot on, Bit of A technicality and in poor taste, But o one has actually been found guilty of criminality in Both Ian Tomlinson and Mark duggans case

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The proposal for elected Police Commissioners is obscene at this particular point in time, even if it was a good idea in the first place, which it is not. Our Forces are being cut to the bone, our Navy, essential for an Island Nation-well, the disgust of taking out an aircraft carrier befor its time and then to announce SHARING one with France-probably without any 'planes to put on the thing, the deep shame of all that and then to waste money on ELECTED (political) POLICE COMMISSIONERS, in absolutely mindless. Scrap the wole idea now before too much harm is done to our Country and our Police Service as a whole.

Exactly who thought this idea up in the first place? If we must have Police Commissioners because of? They must surely have come up through the "ranks" and have first hand knowledge of what British Policing is about and surely they should be British through and through?

If the commissioners turn out to be freemasons like many chief constables, we will have really dropped ourselves in it.

Now that nominations have closed for the ludicrous, dangerous positions of Police and Crime Commissioner, I shall be voting for Labour's Ron Hogg, as recommended by the man I know who knows most about this sort of thing, my Parish Council colleague, Bob Glass. I assume that it is First Past The Post. If not, then my second preference will go to my erstwhile neighbour, Kingsley Smith. Unless he is one of those on whom see below. Is he? The Conservative candidate here in Durham is 21. Yes, you read aright. Twenty-one years old. And there is no Lib Dem at all. Signs of the times, brethren. Signs of the times.

I quite understand why Lord (Sir Ian) Blair wants people to abstain. But, as with Obama and Romney, someone is going to win. However, I wouldn't blame anyone who couldn't be bothered, and it looks as if most people are going to take that view. Once that pitiful turnout is a matter of record, Labour should promise to abolish these positions, as part of a comprehensive restoration of the powers of councillors, parliamentarians, magistrates and jurors.

I have been as critical as anyone of Andrew Gilligan, once the man who exposed the Dodgy Dossier, since he went over to the Dark Side. More than anything, it has been his painfully obvious desire to overcompensate that has really proven an irritant. But he has done well in securing the withdrawal of a suspiciously well-funded "Independent" candidate in Lincolnshire, one Mervyn Barrett, a bought and paid for servant of G4S (which, terrifyingly, has already taken over Lincolnshire's custody suites, central control room and firearms licensing department, but which tweeted about a fortnight ago that it had a candidate in every area) and of the Fund for the New American Century, a neoconservative think tank. Now, how about a few exposés of rather more prominent figures with distinctly questionable links to the American neoconservative think tank circuit?

Take, for example, Michael Gove, a longstanding Blair groupie who once wrote that he wanted to swoon into the Great Man's arms, and a key player in the London subsidiary operation of the American Trotskyism that is the neoconservative movement. Gove came up through the 1980s New Right, which had few political and no sociological differences with the the New Left that eventually became New Labour. They both acted out their stated aims to legalise drugs, to abolish the age of consent, and so on.

The only difference was as to which foreign dictatorships they supported, and took payment from: the Soviet Bloc or China in one case, apartheid South Africa and various Latin American military juntas in the case of Gove and friends. A generation later, they could and did both agree on George W Bush. It is worth noting that for more than 20 years now, the only foreign interest willing or able to interfere financially in British political life has been the axis of American neoconservatives, who are not even in government in their win country, and the secular Israeli Far Right, which most unfortunately is very much in government in its own country.

The latter is funded entirely by the former, an arrangement which would be illegal in the other direction. It is also illegal here, but no one seems to care. They did, rightly, when the USSR used to fund the CPGB. They would if any other foreign interests were funding British politicians. But they don't care about this. Funny, that.

And then there are the links between the Coalition and the American healthcare companies. Go on, Andrew Gilligan. I dare you. You'd have to do a Paul Foot and publish it in Private Eye after your newspaper had refused to print it. But go on. I dare you.

Gove has just denounced Disraeli. Fine. By all means let Labour be the only party of the Tory populist tradition, far more of which was in any case carried over into it than into a party defined by the takeover of the Tory machine by successive waves of Country Whigs, Patriot Whigs, Liberal Unionists, Liberal Imperialists, National Liberals, Owenite refugees after the collapse of the SDP, and now Orange Book Lib Dems.

John Prescott is the best reason for the creation of a Police and Crime Commissioner. He will set the standard and others had better keep up.

If political parties were not funding candidates the only people to be elected to these positions would be those approved of by very secretive organisations, lobby groups, and nefarious gangs camouflaged as sheep.

The Shield

I am the unofficial Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Candidate because I couldn't bring myself to hand over the £5000 deposit required to stand in the forth-coming Police and Crime Commissioner elections set for 15th November 2012.

Come on, I'd be a fool to throw £5000 down the drain. I'm not a gambling man and couldn't bank on getting 5% of the vote, to get it back. Bearing in mind Katy Bourne, Godfrey Daniel and Ian Chisnall haven't had to put up their own money, I decided the best thing to do was try another way.

Each candidate was required to hand over 100 signatures and a £5000 deposit (10 times the deposit required to stand as a Member of Parliament), by 19 October 2012.

Five candidates have come forward, Tony Armstrong (UKIP), Katy Bourne (Conservative), Ian Chisnall (Independence), Godfrey Daniel (Labour) and David Rogers (Liberal Democrat).

But I'm not going to let stupid bureaucracy stand in my way of my dream job. Lets remember that even Nick Herbert, the minister who brought through the PCC legislation resigned. Actions speaks louder than words and his resignation says a lot about the state of these elections.

I'm now the unofficial candidate, introducing a new concept into politics called Guerrilla Democracy.

I am always pushing the boundaries and will continue to do so. I want voters to exercise their democratic right to spoil their ballot papers by writing SOS on them.

Standing on an anti-corruption platform I'm calling for the IPCC to investigation claims of police corruption surrounding the 1996 murder of Brighton born Katrina Taylor.

I have crime files which name the killers and indict up to 50 police officers involved in the murder cover-up of Katrina Taylor. As of yet no-one has been brought to justice for Katrina's murder. It's been a voyage of discovery since running in this election and the examples of police corruption uncovered is truly shocking.

With the elections being widely regarded as a waste of public money, and with well known public figures such as the former Met Police Commissioner Ian Blair calling for voters to boycott it. Public confidence in elected Police and Crime Commissioners is widely held with ignorance and indifference.

If elected drugs and prostitution will be low priority crimes, freeing the police to concentrate on other priorities such as theft, domestic abuse and anti-social behaviour.

I would expand the charitable and voluntary sectors in community policing on a scale never before seen. We must face facts that more and more police officers are being taken off the streets, and it's imperative we have systems to fill the void.

I'll be a champion for the police and community in equal measure. And work towards making a cleaner police force, a more tolerant police force and the best police force in the country.

I have the integrity, intelligence and independent to be a great Police and Crime Commissioner, so be brave Sussex and vote for me.

I'm appearing at a Sussex University Hustings on Wednesday 31st October starting at 5pm.

Come along if you want.

I was in Liverpool yesterday and saw a list of candidates (I haven't seen one for the place where I live). Every single one came from a political party. Policing should not be politicised. We can see what a disaster that is from the abysmal American "justice" system.