It is telling that the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Panel decided to symbolically veto Sue Mountstevens’ original budget – the only panel in England and Wales to do so.
“By backing our police with the funding, powers and resources they need, we are keeping the public and our communities safe, so people everywhere can live their lives free from the fear of crime” – Mark Shelford
New statistics show that over 6,620 extra officers have been recruited through the Conservative Government’s police recruitment drive, with 128 more in Avon and Somerset alone.
This week's Sunday papers highlighted that the theft of a family's dog, so called ‘dog-napping’, is reaching epidemic proportions across the country. This is a particularly heartless crime: cruel to the animal and cruel for their owners.
Bristol-born merchant, philanthropist, and slave-trader, Edward Colston, is not the only public figure to have fallen dramatically in public estimation in the West of England in recent months.
