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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…
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...
Police & Crime Commissioner hopeful Liz Webster The experience of being a victim of a serious crime fired Liz Webster’s desire to be the next police and crime commissioner for Swindon and Wiltshire. The 57-year-old is the mum of Harry Webster who suffered a horrendous hammer attack when he was a pupil at Ridgeway School in 2007. Now the Liberal Democrat candidate for the job of setting policy and budgets for Wiltshire Police has said that was where she started seeing what could be improved. “It was a hugely difficult time. My son was fighting for his life and it felt like I was al...
Liz Webster is standing for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner in Wiltshire The Liberal Democrat candidate for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner role has stood by her policy of abolishing the deputy's post. Liz Webster’s plan is to get rid of the appointed position and use the £19,000 annual salary to pay for an officer to work with travellers. Her opponents in the election say they believe the post is necessary to allow the commissioner to understand and address the different needs and wishes of the towns, villages, and communities across the whole count...
All of the Swindon & Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner candidates have responded to a letter from Trowbridge Town Council asking to share…