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Published on: 23/01/2018 06:59 AMReported by: roving-eye
This week police and crime commissioner Jane Kennedy is going to ask Southport people for more money to keep police on the streets.
She is going to spend council tax payers money coming out on a self-promoting road show seeking our support to tax ourselves more to help keep local police numbers up. But how much is her own office currently costing local taxpayers?
Jane Kennedy, who was first elected as Merseyside Police & Crime Commissioner in 2012, says that if she does not win the support of local people for a rise in council tax, then Merseyside Police will be left facing a further shortfall of more than £3.17 million - the equivalent of 64 police officers.
She said the Conservatives have left the force facing a “funding black hole.” Many local people are rightly concerned at the level of police cutbacks caused by central government cash cuts but other are asking questions about the role of the Police and Crime Commissioner herself - including how much she is costing local taxpayers every year.
The total cost of salaries for the 24 people who work in the office of Merseyside’s Police and Crime Commissioner has been calculated by a local newspaper as being a fairly staggering £832,694. The figure could actually be higher than this as the calculation is based on assuming the lower end of the wage brackets for several of the positions.
The highest earner in the office is of course Ms Kennedy, whose 'top liner pay' is an arresting £85,000 per year. Mrs Kennedy left Parliament, where she had been on a Minister's salary and employed her husband at 'top whack' as her assistant, after she had said that she was not “able or willing” to abide by the changes which would come about in the House of Commons as a result of the MPs' expenses scandal. She added that she was dismayed at recommendations in the Kelly review into the future of Commons’ allowances which would bar MPs from having relatives on the payroll. and stop them claiming for mortgages on second homes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-jobs-row.html
Last year Ms Kennedy appointed a new deputy commissioner, Liverpool Councillor Emily Spurell, who is paid £31,800 for just three days work a week. Councillor Spurrell is the third Labour councillor to be given this extra cash bonus by Ms Kennedy on top of her Council pay.
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Another case of "some pigs being more equal than others" at Sefton... What a gravy train!
If £830K+ per year for her mini dept is to be believed then "physician heal thyself" - we the Council Tax payers and Merseyside Constabulary don't need you!!
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It’s high time this greedy self serving ***** was put to pasture. £85k, and probably as much again in expenses and pension contributions, and for what?
Get rid of all the Police Commissioners, and their hangers on, and feed the money saved directly into increasing Bobbies on the beat.
Last edited by justbecause; 23/01/2018 at 10:44 AM.
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Don't forget that Police and Crime Commissioners were established by the Tories and Lib Dems and were voted for by our very own John Pugh. Labour opposed them.
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The PCC is a very expensive structure however what one can only assume is a politically motivated post seems to miss a few facts:
1) it won’t just be Southport asked for more money but it’s right to be want to see the benefit
2) The £85,000 emotive number is set nationally for a role voted for by Tories and our libs:
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11...ns?policy=6696
(A more emotive number is maybe our last MP is enjoying a pension of approx £27k for all he delivered, try getting that in private sector:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...ion-boost.html)
3) Whether you like her or not Jane Kennedy was voted in and beat lib and Tory candidates
4) the deputy PCC went through the election process and notably
Vice-Chair Cllr Simon Shaw wrote: “The Panel wished to place on record its satisfaction with the openness and transparency of the recruitment process carried out for this position.”
https://www.merseysidepcc.info/home/...DeputyPCC.aspx
5) John Pugh employed two Lib Dem councillors as his assistants so is it much different?
Role/structure is expensive but our Libs/Tories shouldn’t use this as a political football.
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The old Police Authority was a much cheaper solution and achieved the same levels of success. All of the posts created by the PCC already exist within Merseyside Police. This is just duplication and a waste of taxpayers money.
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So funny the way the Lib-Dems put this rubbish out to try and cover up for the fact that THEY and the Tories voted for the police cuts.... so for the lack of local bobbies etc. etc.... thank John Pugh and Damien Moore... and that is EXACTLY why the Police and Crime Commissioner has to ask for a rise in council tax bills, so thank the Lib-Dems and Tories for that too! Oh, and of course... didn't they vote for this role with the Tories too? 'Course they did! They are now just sore it's not a Lib-Dem or Tory in the role in M'side. Hypocrites!!
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Originally Posted by
Gwhizz
So funny the way the Lib-Dems put this rubbish out to try and cover up for the fact that THEY and the Tories voted for the police cuts.... so for the lack of local bobbies etc. etc.... thank John Pugh and Damien Moore... and that is EXACTLY why the Police and Crime Commissioner has to ask for a rise in council tax bills, so thank the Lib-Dems and Tories for that too! Oh, and of course... didn't they vote for this role with the Tories too? 'Course they did! They are now just sore it's not a Lib-Dem or Tory in the role in M'side. Hypocrites!!
So I suppose you will be supporting the axeing of this pointless Labour quango now in the interests of democracy and cost savings? Think of all the more useful things this money could be spent on than Labour serial failure Jane Kennedy and her rather expensive cronies. Drain the swamp!
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