29 Dec A New Years’ Message from PCC Martin Surl
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2020 is nearly over...
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10 Aug Lies, damned lies and statistics.
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A caped crusader or someone politicking and creating fear for political ends? I’ll leave that for you to decide. As someone who spent his first career covering politics and writing headlines, I get the need to grab people’s attention. But I have always believed in presenting the...
03 Aug Covid’s impact on our ways of working…
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New methods of working, brought about by the pandemic, is reinforcing Gloucestershire’s reputation as the ‘greenest’ constabulary in the country.
Increased working from home, less printing and online technology replacing the need to travel miles to meetings are all recognised now as ways of saving energy.
24 Mar COVID19: My statement in response to the PM’s “lockdown” decision
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Last night the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his latest measures to try and deal with the coronavirus.
The implications of this will be felt by all of us, but the decision to effectively lockdown most of us at home, will see additional demands on our police force.
24 Aug We must block crime’s revolving door
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There is a reason Martin is not just the Police Commissioner but the Police and Crime Commissioner. As well as overseeing the Constabulary, setting the budget and general strategy, which we call the police and crime plan, his role encompasses everything to do with crime and the criminal...
07 Nov Forest boxing club that’s also fighting anti-social behaviour
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The cool kids in Cinderford thought it a joke when Forest Fighting Fit first opened over two years ago. But within
minutes of stepping inside to grudgingly take a look in the way teenagers sometimes do, they were hooked.
I could see why when I visited last month on a dark Monday evening to present a plaque to thank everyone involved in what they are doing. In 2015, Martin as PCC helped get it off the ground with a grant of £40,000 from the Commissioner’s Fund.
19 Oct Community Safety body’s first task is to tackle violent crime
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For far too long we took our eye of the ball when it came to community safety. With austerity it went down the pecking order of priorities.
Statutory wise it is the job of the County Council, but it delegated the responsibilities to local districts.
Thankfully due to a co-ordinated effort by leaders across Gloucestershire work was commissioned to look to what we could do to get back on track.