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[geoffr70]

I have a huge problem with the entire idea.

It's a typical politican's solution to  a problem that doesn't exist. Quite how UKIPs mandate is relevant to such a local issue is beyond me.

Adding another top level of elected bureaucracy is going to add nothing but extra cost.
What is the Police Commisioner going to be able to do that the Chief Constable, and the political commitee that he already reports to, can't already do?
Making the local Police more effective can surely only be acheived within the local Police stations. That makes it mostly the responsibility of the lower management such as sergeants and inspectors. Something that is true of all large organisations.

The top job should be there to ensure that standards and effectiveness are met. We should be making it personally responsible again for such things, along with corruption. I realise that responsibilty is now a deeply unfashionable concept, let alone personal responsibility, but that needs to change. The world would be a much better place for it.

If you go on their website and read their manifesto, it won't be!

[Rods2]

According to Nigel Farage UKIP started out as a single issue party, but they are now a party with many policies to cover all of the main bases. When in an interview he was asked about his personal politics, he said he was a libertarian who believed in freedom and responsibility of the individual and small government. TBH UKIP fills the void left by the Conservatives under Wooster and Wooster Cameron and Osborne, where they have turned it into Labour Lite. Unfortunately the only Jeeves in the Conservative Government that I can see, are John Redwood on the back benches and Lord Tebbit in the Lords, who the two Woosters totally ignore.