Police & Crime Commissioners

I fully support Labour’s plans to abolish Police & Crime Commissioners.

For more than a decade, PCCs have added an extra political layer to policing without delivering the clear accountability that communities were promised. In many areas, including ours, the system has led to confusion about who is responsible for what, and whether these roles genuinely improve local policing.

Labour’s plan is about restoring clarity, improving leadership, and ensuring the public get the effective policing they expect. By removing PCCs, we can focus on:

• Putting accountability back inside policing

  
  

• Strengthening professional leadership

  
  

• Reducing unnecessary bureaucracy

  
  

• Redirecting resources towards front-line policing and community safety

  
  

• Ensuring communities like the Forest of Dean see real, tangible improvements

At a time when people want real action on crime, neighbourhood policing, anti-social behaviour, and serious violence, this reform is the right step. It will create a system that is simpler, more effective, and more focused on public safety—not politics.

This change is good for the country, and it’s good for Gloucestershire.