{"id":1989,"date":"2021-04-13T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policecommissioner.net\/why-im-backing-martin-by-roger-head\/"},"modified":"2021-04-13T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:20:14","slug":"why-im-backing-martin-by-roger-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policecommissioner.net\/why-im-backing-martin-by-roger-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\\&#8217;m backing Martin by Roger Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On May the 6th , when some of us will be able to vote for our local councillors, we will all be asked to vote for our Police and Crime Commissioner. It\u2019s possible many people still don\u2019t know about the PCC and the significant role he plays in the life of Gloucestershire. I say \u2018he\u2019 because Martin Surl became the county\u2019s first elected commissioner in 2012 and re-elected in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>During my year as High Sheriff, our paths crossed many times when I saw his work first hand and that is why I feel qualified to endorse Mr. Surl as the best candidate. There are many reasons for this.<\/p>\n<p>Being \u2018the first\u2019 in anything is difficult but he has established the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner as a credible driving force for good within the county. He has successfully integrated local volunteers and communities into an overall strategy for preventing and reducing crime and anti-social behaviour \u2013 work, incidentally, that is much admired by many other PCCs \u2013 and any parent with a child who is about to learn to drive should be grateful for the huge investment made in safer driving programmes aimed at young people who are statistically the most vulnerable of our road users.<\/p>\n<p>All of this has been quite apart from his core responsibilities of managing the police budget, holding the chief constable to account, overseeing the biggest re-organisation of Gloucestershire police in 40 years and re-designing the police estate and saving local taxpayers many millions of pounds into the bargain.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should declare an interest here as I also agree with Mr. Surl that the Police and Crime Commissioner should not be a party politician. As the Prime Minister said when the post was created, politics should not come into it, we want the best man for the job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Head OBE<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May the 6th , when some of us will be able to vote for our local councillors, we will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[12,77,26,9,151,98,10,192],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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