Anyone voting for Surrey's Police Commissioner?
Discussion
Anyone else planning to vote for this election, or is it likely to return a winning candidate on about 4 votes because nobody can be arsed to vote?
I was going to be firmly in the "can't be arsed to vote" camp until I looked at the candidates for Surrey and discovered we have 4 party political candidates, the Chairman of the current Surrey Police Authority (who have overseen Surrey having one of the lowest crime detection rates in the country, even though they've not exactly got that many crimes to try and solve in the first place), and just one properly independent candidate.
Given that this one candidate - Kevin Hurley actually looks like he could be worth having (lots of experience and standing on a zero tolerance policy), I'm going to make sure I get off my arse and go and vote, but I'm worried that most of the people who do bother will just vote on party political lines, regardless of what that party's policies (if they even have one) are for policing in Surrey.
I realise btw that there are already threads running about this in NP&E, but I was particularly interested in what people thought for Surrey, so hopefully it won't get killed off as a repost. If people want to talk about whomever is standing for TVP Commissioner, I suppose that would be relevant to this forum too.
I was going to be firmly in the "can't be arsed to vote" camp until I looked at the candidates for Surrey and discovered we have 4 party political candidates, the Chairman of the current Surrey Police Authority (who have overseen Surrey having one of the lowest crime detection rates in the country, even though they've not exactly got that many crimes to try and solve in the first place), and just one properly independent candidate.
Given that this one candidate - Kevin Hurley actually looks like he could be worth having (lots of experience and standing on a zero tolerance policy), I'm going to make sure I get off my arse and go and vote, but I'm worried that most of the people who do bother will just vote on party political lines, regardless of what that party's policies (if they even have one) are for policing in Surrey.
I realise btw that there are already threads running about this in NP&E, but I was particularly interested in what people thought for Surrey, so hopefully it won't get killed off as a repost. If people want to talk about whomever is standing for TVP Commissioner, I suppose that would be relevant to this forum too.
Vic_S said:
I agree re. voting for an independent candidate, but haven't a clue as to choosing between Kevin Hurley or Peter Williams...
I was put off Peter Williams by the fact that he's the current Chairman of the Surrey Police Authority.The fact that we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country is, in my view, more down to population demographics than it is to efficient policing, but the fact that Surrey is in the bottom three forces when it comes to solving those crimes that do happen surely is down to police performance, and if that's been led from the Police Authority, then I'm not going to vote for its current Chairman to keep on delivering more of the same.
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