Following reports that the West Midlands police commissioner Bob Jones, has said his own role should be scrapped in favour of something more efficient and less party political Roger said: “I have never been a fan of police and crime commissioners and voted against the measure in Parliament”.
Roger doesn’t believe that bringing politics into policing is especially popular and the electorate would seem to agree as the turnout across the West Midlands force area in November's elections was 12%. The turnout figure was lowest in Coventry at 10.18%.
“Whilst I like Bob and would not want to make him redundant I do agree with him that elected police commissioners should be scrapped”.

This article appeared in the May edition of Roger's newsletter 'Postcard from Parliament'