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A FORCE FIT FOR THE FUTURE “Whatever their affiliation, it seems likely that almost all PCCs will find considerable difficulty in realising their promises.” local dialogue between the coalition and its ‘own’ PCCs is a unilateral one between the Conservatives and their 16. Whatever their affiliation, it seems likely that almost all PCCs will find considerable difficulty in realising their promises. Apart from Labour’s attack on the 20 per cent cuts, there was little reference in the campaign manifestos to the stark choices that were on PCCs desks on 22 November 2012. Although Police Authorities had, honourably, sought to avoid ‘poisoning the wells’ as they vacated the field, they, nevertheless, left a very tough budget for the PCC to decide in a very few weeks. Within a fortnight of their arrival, the Chancellor was giving them unwelcome news about their central grant for 2013-14. Most PCCs are going to have to tear up their manifestos and start drawing up plans for damage limitation over the extent of police station closures, redundancies and loss of police posts. Most of them are also going to have to make early decisions about private sector involvement and all of them are going to have to consider the level of council tax precept that their voters will be prepared to accept. It is in this last issue – the precept – that the first issue – turnout – is likely to catch up with the PCCs. While it is perfectly legitimate to make the argument that voters who don’t vote cannot subsequently complain about the result, the election was so badly run by the Home Office that PCCs could not rely on that line. No PCC was elected by more than 10 per cent of the registered electorate. More than 90 per cent of the electorate were not persuaded to vote or voted for one of the other candidates. When it comes to setting the budget, the strategy and the police precept, this means that PCCs have had to pay close attention to all the ways in which their Police Authority predecessors tried hard to make up for their lack of direct democracy with consultation, information and open public meetings. Nearly half of the new PCCs also found that one of their first tasks was to appoint a new Chief Constable. Some already knew this because a Temporary Chief was running their force, some found out in their first conversation with the Chief. Well over half of the Chiefs in the country were either temporary, or had either 30 years’ service or were within touching distance. In a normal year there are, at most, eight or nine vacancies for Chief. Investing in leadership PCCs are likely to discover something that all good Chief Constables have always known – the importance of investing long term in the development of leadership. The Home Office decision to prevent permanent appointments in the run up to the elections was a risky and short-sighted decision by a department whose track record on intervening in the development of police leadership leaves little room for pride. If, as the Home Office appeared to be encouraging, the market for police leadership becomes a free-for-all in which PCCs enter a bidding war for the best candidates, then the public are likely to be very ill-served. The best companies and institutions understand that good leadership most often comes from within the organisation. PCCs should take their time. There are never enough candidates at Deputy level ready to step up straight away, but if the PCCs collectively commissioned the new College of Policing to provide them with a programme to prepare the potential candidates, they reap the benefits and it would be a good test of the new College, which started business on 1 December 2012. Setting the culture Finally, when the PCCs arrived at their forces for their first day, they had to reflect on some of the messages that the electorate did send them, even if the turn out was poor. The public calling in to radio and TV programmes were very intolerant of them interfering in operational business, critical of their salary and potential perks and concerned that some PCCs might choose to do their real business behind closed doors. As they started work, the best of the new crop of PCCs will have understood that every move they make will be setting the new culture. Cosy, private meetings with the Chief will be seen as a loss of the promise of transparency. The PCC hogging the limelight at every opportunity will be interpreted as a loss of operational independence. But the real test will come when things go wrong. PCCs who reach for the eject lever to remove their Chief at the first opportunity may wish to remember that the electorate will judge them, not the departed Chief, in 2016. 106 | POLICING UK
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