Step closer to independent police authority
Thursday 23rd December 2010, 2:57PM GMT.
Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand.
OVERSIGHT of the police could switch to a new independent authority under proposals by Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand.
The long-awaited proposals for a Jersey Police Authority would set up an independent body taking over responsibility for ensuring that the £22m-per-year States of Jersey Police is efficient and effective, and which would be in charge of discipline, organisation and succession planning.
But unlike the UK system, the Jersey Police Authority would have no independent power to raise revenue by increasing taxes, and might not play a role in hiring and firing senior officers.
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Goodness knows this is long overdue .There is no real policing without consensus…any authority whether the Police or the government must have trust and accountability…it is badly missing on the island,people have lost respect and trust and no good crying about it the powers that be have through mass incompetence ,dishonesty and secrecy..bought it on themselves..it will be an uphill march to rebuild those essential elements are they up to it I wonder.
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Zoro says
|the powers that be have through mass incompetence ,dishonesty and secrecy..bought [sic] it on themselves.”
So when the new body will be in charge of discipline, but might not be firing senior police officers, how is that going to work?
Plus ca change
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