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The Green Party’s candidate for the Swindon & Wiltshire Police & Crime Commissioner office has promised to do away with the role if…
Police have influence Most people will join the outgoing Police & Crime Commissioner Angus Macpherson in condemning the activities of a minority of protesters who attacked a Bristol police station and its occupants (SA, March 27). However, Mr Macpherson is being a tad light on the truth with his claim that “the police do not write bills and they do not introduce new legislation”. What he wilfully ignores to mention is the very real influence that the police, through the National Police Council, has on government policy. Mr Macpherson blithely states that “the police are not ther...
THE trapdoor is threatening to open for Morton as they enter the final four games of the season in desperate need of points to stay in the Championship. A deeply damaging 4-1 defeat against Inverness in midweek has pushed them into the bottom two and they are now in grave danger of facing a relegation play-off at the least, unless they can turn things around and pick up a win or two over the next few weeks. Ayr and Arbroath are also in the mix, with Alloa adrift at the bottom, and it looks like it could well come down to Ton's two final fixtures, which are against The Wasps and the Red ...
FIVE people who attended a car meet were fined for breaching coronavirus restrictions. The youngsters, all aged 18 to 20 and from different households, were issued with £200 fines after they were found inside a vehicle together. Officers stopped the car in Somerset Road in the early hours of Saturday morning. A Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: “They [officer] found a group of young people who admitted they were in the car together as they were socialising but were informed, they were only allowed to socialise in groups of up to six outdoors, not in vehicles.” The “stay at...
Women outnumber men for the first time at a British police force. Wiltshire Police has 1,140 female officers and staff compared to 1,101 male employees, a report revealed. All but one of the force’s 63 civilian staff hired between 2019 and last year were female. The report found that ‘men and women are paid equally at every grade in Wiltshire Police’ and 53 per cent of successful police officer candidates in March 2020 were female, of ethnic minority, ex-military or other protected characteristics.’ Chief Constable Kier Pritchard said he was pleased with the findings and committed...