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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.
Junab Ali knows he might be up against it as Labour’s candidate in this year’s Police and Crime Commissioner election. The former Swindon mayor is standing for the job of setting policy and budgets and overseeing the work of Wiltshire Police – in a county where every other elected politician or authority is a Conservative. He represents Central ward on Swindon Borough Council – one of the most urban areas in the county – and needs to pick up votes from rural areas and small and medium-sized towns if he is to win. But the 47-year-old businessman says his experience as a counc...
Article content Friendship Park not the place for a festival site We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Letters: Friendship Park festival site proposal 'ill conceived' Back to video I’ve written to the mayor and city council to express my misgivings about this ill-conceived plan and I have to wonder if all of the city councillors have actually walked around the site. I walk by the park regularly and I cannot imagine 7,500 people crammed into that small wedge-shaped park. Paulson also made some excellent points about lack of parking, noise, and ob...
WILTSHIRE’S police and crime commissioner hit out at the watchdog – claiming its investigations run at a “glacial pace” and cause needless stress. Angus Macpherson, who leaves the post in May after a nine-year tenure, said his one wish would be for the Independent Office for Police conduct to “get its act together and deal with complaints fairly and quickly”. He claimed former Chief Constable Pat Geenty, who retired in 2015 despite the watchdog saying he had a “case to answer” for misconduct, had been treated unfairly. The IOPC hit back, calling Mr Macpherson’s comme...
FOUR revellers were all handed £200 fines after police caught them breaking lockdown rules.