Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#1
I've had this invite to attend this conference, but at £150.00 have to turn it down.
Be interesting though:
"The most significant democratic reform of policing in our lifetime will be about to come to life...the public will now know who will be leading the fight against crime in their community. They will know exactly what their elected Police and Crime Commissioner has committed to doing. They will be ready for their elected representative to show they have earned the public's support. And they will know what to do if they don't deliver."
We would like to invite you to join us at our Policing and Justice Conference 2012 - a forum to discuss the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, as well as examine the new ideas, techniques, technologies and partnerships which hope to make the Criminal Justice Sector more effective, and British communities safer.
With Councillors charged with ensuring the wellbeing of the communities they serve, it is essential that they are kept up to date with the current reforms in Policing and Justice.
This conference will look at pertinent issues affecting community safety, including: moving towards elected Police and Crime Commissioners; the future of local youth justice services; reducing reoffending through community partnerships; and the key role of local authorities in shaping local policing and justice services.
Electing Police and Crime Commissioners aims to change the accountability of local policing, and this timely conference will give Councillors an exclusive opportunity to speak with key policy makers, and colleagues from across the policing and justice sector, about this new relationship between the public and law enforcement.
"Maintaining and indeed improving the quality of the Criminal Justice System will be a major challenge. This can only be met by all of us involved working more efficiently in our own areas, focusing on fairness and effectiveness, and ensuring that we safeguard the quality of the service we offer the public. And we need to work together better, to take this opportunity to rethink processes and organisational arrangements, modernising and streamlining them."
If only.........................
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
on the subject of criminality £.150 quid a throw seems to fit the conference subject.
will the council not pay it roger?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#3
"Maintaining and indeed improving the quality of the Criminal Justice System will be a major challenge..."
"will be"????
Here was me thinking it already was a major and on-going challenge.
Still...this is a good idea if the wives of politicians or their 'friends' want a job that will bring in about £100k to help pay for those little extras expenses no longer stretch to.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#4
We need a no-nonsense policy towards crime. A no tea and biscuit approach.
#5
Howard - I work in the CJ system and I can't get funding!!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#6
Talk is cheap. Action is rare when local authorities are concerned. Conferences such as these are a total waste of taxpayers ' money.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#7
There is a piece in the KOS on-line paper about an ex-army Colonel, Tim Collins who was to be the next Police Commissioner for Kent. He is all for more victims rights, stronger sentences and more Police - some paid, some volunteers and those volunteers receiving council-tax reductions.
I would thinks there's lots to talk about on this subject and much to be decided.
Greater Police presence on our streets is very desirable and if those volunteer police have decent limited powers, then so much the better; enforcement of many of the things that spoil our Towns would be resolved - littering, dog-poo, drug-dealing, drunken/anti-social behaviour, cycling through pedestrian areas, shop-lifting etc.
Safer, cleaner, more welcome Towns - in an instant.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#8
ROGER;
In the bigger picture, we have to make a decision on a number of issues if we were to go down this geezers route;
1; is prison the corrert route for everyone
2; prison's are already overfull so where do new people sentenced go
3; is it right to release prisoners with lighter sentences
4; how do victims of people released on light sentences feel knowing they have
not completed there sentences
5; does releasing lighter sentenced people send out the signal that small time crime
does actual pay
6; in who's eyes is it small time crime
blimey, i could go on
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
If I was a Government Minister, or a new Police Commissioner I could answer those questions Keith; I may/do, have my own opinions on what I think should be the case and the answers I put would not be the same as everyone else's.
Roger