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| Peter Jones |
Sussex Conservatives will select their
candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner on 14th July at the special general
meeting at Burgess Hill.
As a losing candidate I think that puts
me in a unique position in regard to judging who would be the best candidate
for the job as I have studied them all in depth.
I believe that Peter Jones will make
the best PCC Candidate and I am swinging my support behind him. The reasons for this is that he has a
successful record of turning round East Sussex County Council building up the
reserves to be £200M and helping launch a £500M capital spending programme. He is also one
of Sussex’s big political animals and has the statue and gravitas to hold this
position.
Peter has a plan (rather than aspirations); this would be to take out £10m
of admin costs to give a boost to the front line, so the force can hire more
police officers to protect our local communities. Also to use some of the admin savings to strengthen
the specialist support teams to help the force as a whole to catch more
criminals and charge them.
Also one of the big issues I have highlighted is the CPS and its effectiveness
in prosecuting cases. If elected Peter wants to use his mandate to introduce
performance targets for police and the Crown Prosecution Service to hold them
to account publicly for catching and prosecuting more criminals.
Based on the above, I think Peter is the best Candidate, he has a credible
plan and because of this I will support his campaign.
I hope all members can attend on
the 14th of July at the Triangle in Burgess Hill to make the decision
and give whoever is the Conservative Candidate their support for victory at the
election on the 15th of November.
