By Lucy Morgan Audience and Content Editor
Police and Crime Commissioner to recommend tax hike H Hampshire s Police and Crime Commissioner will, on Friday, recommend a Band D £15 per year police precept rise to the Police and Crime Panel. Michael Lane says there has been significant support from the residents of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire - and the hike has also been backed by the Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary. On January 29, Mr Lane will present his intention to increase the policing precept, to raise an additional £10m for Hampshire Constabulary in 2021/22. Arguing that there was a compelling operational case , he said: I firmly believe the police precept increase will keep local residents and our communities safer.and is the only option.
I want to stop crime - is the stark reasoning from the Chief Constable of Hampshire - as she asks officials to increase the police precept by £15 per house, or 7.1 %
Big precept increase will let us take fight to criminals, says chief constable I want to stop crime. That is the stark reasoning from the Chief Constable of Hampshire as she asks officials to increase the police precept by £15 per house, or 7.1 per cent. With the budget for policing being set at the end of the month, Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney has made a case to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Michael Lane, for more funding for her force. The PCC undertook a consultation to see whether residents would agree on the increase that would see Band D properties paying £15 more a year.
Olivia Pinkney, photographed at Hampshire Police headquarters, Netley. MEMBERS of a ‘toxic’ police unit who were sacked after covert recordings caught a catalogue of racist, sexist and homophobic remarks have been criticised for their “outdated and offensive views”. Police chiefs have welcomed a decision to dismiss three members of Hampshire Constabulary’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) based at the Northern Police Investigation Centre, in Basingstoke. Detective Sergeant Oliver Lage, Detective Sergeant Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been discharged from the constabulary without notice. Retired Detective Inspector Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman would have been dismissed if they had not already left the service. The sixth officer, PC Andrew Ferguson was given a final written warning.