{"id":4013,"date":"2021-03-25T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policecommissioner.net\/ill-chalk-up-mps-blog-as-an-early-vote-for-me\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:15:37","slug":"ill-chalk-up-mps-blog-as-an-early-vote-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policecommissioner.net\/ill-chalk-up-mps-blog-as-an-early-vote-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll chalk up MP\u2019s blog as an early vote for me"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I read Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk\u2019s column in the Echo, which began \u2018All crimes matter\u2019, I thought I could not have put it better myself.<\/span><\/p>\n Then it occurred to me that actually I had, on page 27 of the same newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And when he wrote:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \\”But there are some crimes which are so shocking that they trigger a collective wave of revulsion in us all\\”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I<\/span> recognised the words as very close to those in my own column in that week\u2019s edition, which you can read in full here.<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>I am not accusing Alex Chalk of plagiarism. <\/span><\/p>\n As a junior government minister and trained barrister, he is more than capable of thinking for himself. <\/span><\/p>\n So, as \u2018Every crime matters, every contact counts\u2019<\/a> has been the main driver of my refreshed Police and Crime Plan<\/a> for the last 18 months, I must conclude that he agrees with my approach and the challenge I have set the Constabulary.<\/span><\/p>\n I welcome too his assertion, with reference to the dreadful killing of Sarah Everard – and again I am quoting from his article that:<\/p>\n \\”such crimes are mercifully rare. Cheltenham is a comparatively safe place to live and work\\”. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Not only is this another statement with which I wholeheartedly agree, it is also significant coming from someone whose professional experience and role within government makes him well qualified to express it and in direct contrast to some of the other more extreme voices who scaremonger to try and make themselves heard.<\/span><\/p>\nIt could have been me<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Nothing wrong with admitting we live in a safe county<\/h3>\n
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I work with anybody<\/h3>\n