I have only had the voting cards, but nothing at all from the candidates.......and with something like 3 weeks (or just a little over) that doesn't give much time to look at what they stand for.
Afzal Anwar - Liberal Democrats
Tim Ashton - Conservative
Robert Drobny - UK Independent Party
Clive Grunshaw - Labour
With nomiations now closed, the above is a list of candidates.
and the following link gives a very small potted history about each of them.
BBC News - Lancashire police and crime commissioner candidates
Impressive, it isn't.
This is just another layer of unwarranted bureaucracy....a ploy to let the public
think they will have some control over the policing in their own little patch.
I know I am a cynical burger, but why do these men have to have a political affiliation?
Will their political affiliation appeal to the electors? Will it affect their stance on how the police do their job?
Personally I doubt that they will have any effect, other than that of draining the pot of money, for what should be spent on 'feet on the street'.