Ten pledges from Margaret Hanson - campaigning to be Labour’s Police and Crime Commissioner Candidate

If selected as Labour’s candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner, I pledge to;

 

  • Do all I can to protect our police service and oppose further central Government cuts to North Wales’ police grant; 

 

  • Reinvigorate the Community Safety Partnerships created by Labour when in government so that we prevent crime and have more visible policing; 

 

  • Make preventing anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse two of my top priorities for action;

 

  • Ensure victims are supported more effectively and put them at the heart of all I do; 

 

  • Respect the operational independence of the police, whilst setting clear outcomes for them to achieve and holding them to account when they do not;

 

  • Deliver value for the money raised from our community for policing through local rates and national taxes; 

 

  • Value all staff whose work contributes to the delivery of policing in North Wales;

 

  • Keep you updated about both my work and that of the police, so that I remain accountable for the way in which I fulfil this role;

 

  • Hold regular public meetings, liaise with local councils and the Welsh Government, and other key service providers in our region so that I stay in touch with the concerns of all those whom I will seek to serve; 

 

  • Be on the side of the community not that of the criminal;