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Why UKIP is standing
for Police & Crime
Commissioner here
UKIP: For the victim, not the criminal.
l Reconnecting policing with local communities
l Zero tolerance of criminal behaviour
l Prison sentences that mean what they say
l Fewer foreign criminals in our jails and on our streets
l Defending traditional British rights and justice
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Police & Crime Commissioner Manifesto 2012 Police & Crime Commissioner Manifesto 2012
A message from Nigel Farage MEP,
SUMMARY Leader of UKIP
What we stand for: Defending the rights of the British people
Your UKIP candidate is standing for Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) in these No-one asked for the new Police & Crime Commissioners, the Conservative and
elections because, although we believe there should be proper democratic control Liberal Democrat coalition has forced them on us. UKIP’s policy, for many years,
of the police through elected Police Boards, we think the new PCC should be: has been to have police forces run by elected Police Boards, so that communities
could really have a say in how the police serve them.
l A member of the community, not just another career politician.
But now that Commissioners are here, they do provide a chance for people to
l Tough on crime, including the low-level nuisance and anti-social behaviour that regain some control over how we are policed – to re-establish the fact that the
blights neighbourhoods and leads to bigger trouble. Police are here to serve us, not the other way round. That they are here to serve
the people, not the Government. That they are here to stop crime and keep us safe,
l Determined to re-connect the police with the people and their communities. not raise money through speed traps and on-the-spot fines. Provided, that is, that
the Police & Crime Commissioners don’t end up being the same old political hacks.
We believe in sentences that mean what they say; more effort to prevent repeat
offending; and police priorities that focus on solving real crimes, rather than ‘soft Community-led policing is under attack. Government is looking for cuts in police
targets’. spending; police forces are cutting front-line staff instead of senior managers. We,
the people, need to make our voices heard.
Your UKIP Commissioner will work for: But an even bigger threat comes from the selling-out of our justice system to the
EU and the European Court of Human Rights. One Conservative MEP said that
trusting David Cameron with the EU is like trusting Tony Blair with Iraq.
l More Police Officers on our streets.
Ask yourself: Why are there hundreds of foreign criminals walking our streets? Why
l More Special Constables, rather than powerless PCSOs.
can’t foreign terrorists and killers be deported? Why do our governments keep
giving away control of our law and justice system to control from Brussels and
l Community-based Police Officers in new local Police Stations and Police Houses,
Strasbourg?
built by developers.
We, in UKIP, believe passionately in defending the advanced, civilised and famously
l Zero tolerance of the anti-social behaviour that leads to more crime.
fair British justice system that we’ve developed over centuries. In 2014, the
Government will have a chance to tell the EU that we don’t want them taking over
l Giving local people a say in local policing priorities
our justice system. Will they take it?
and
A vote for your UKIP candidate in these elections will help to show them the way.
l No soft treatment of police misdemeanours: police officers deserve protection
from anything that undermines their integrity
Nigel Farage MEP
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T he detail
This is what your UKIP Police & Crime Low-level bad behaviour – graffiti, littering, l Move away from centralised police ‘hubs’,
Commissioner will be dedicated to – vandalism etc – leads to more serious crime. remote from the people
We need to stamp it out. l Get new Police Stations and Police Houses
Preventing crime at all levels built by developers on new estates, to enable
Preventing reoffending police officers to live within their communities
Preventing crime starts with not tolerating the l Set up public consultations to enable people Shelve the Winsor proposals:
behaviour that leads to it. We say: Nationally, we believe we need to stop to set the local policing priorities halt all plans to use private
criminals re-offending by a three-pronged
l Focus the Police on solving serious crimes, companies for police work.
l Zero tolerance of anti-social behaviour and approach:
rather than concentrating on thought crime,
nuisance. political/diversity issues, gathering statistics
l More police on the beat, including warranted l Build the prisons we need to make them l Re-balancing the law, and policing practice,
and ‘soft targets’. For instance, speed cameras to enable householders to protect their
Special Constables rather than the PCSOs who serve their full sentences
should be sited only where the community
can’t make arrests. l More rehabilitation to turn offenders away property
wants them – not where they’ll make the most
l Axe the Crown Prosecution Service and from crime money. l A return to officers being able to use
return to police prosecutions. l More severe penalties for serial re-offenders discretion in their policing
The Police work for us, not the Government
The £2bn cost of building new prisons is or ACPO*. They are here to help us keep our UKIP cherishes the quality of our Police, who
negligible compared to the cost of crime – streets and our society safe, not control us or are admired throughout the world, and will
£34billion in 2009/10 according to the Victim fulfil some national political agenda. fight to preserve it.
Support Service.
Your UKIP PCC will work with the police and Building trust in the police Supporting the police in their work
other relevant organisations in the voluntary
Why are there hundreds of sector to bring down crime by all means Our Police need our complete trust and co- The police work best when they know they
foreign offenders walking our possible. operation. So when an individual officer or the have the support of the Government, the
force does something wrong, we should never public and now the Police & Crime Commis-
streets? Why can’t foreign
Bringing police back to your take the ‘soft option’. sioner. We aim to achieve this by:
terrorists and killers be
community
deported? Why do our At the same time, we should reward and l Giving the Police the right pay, conditions
governments keep giving away The Police are here to serve the people, and recognise our Police men and women and tools to do the job
control of our law and justice UKIP believes that the ideal system is to have properly. We believe in: l Suspending implementation of the Winsor
elected (rather than appointed) Police Boards proposals
system to control from l No soft treatment of Police misdemeanours
so that the people can have real control over l Leaving police work to the Police – your
Brussels and Strasbourg? police priorities. We will continue to campaign l Halting any current plans to use commercial UKIP Police & Crime Commissioner won’t use
for this, but in the meantime we will: security companies to carry out police work private security companies.
*The Association of Chief Police Officers, which increasingly
makes decisions about how our laws are enforced.
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