… “[Tony] Hogg, PCC for Devon and Cornwall, recently quit the Tory party, saying the public was “sleepwalking” towards the 5 May poll without any publicity, and that he suspected the “low-key” approach was designed to disadvantage independent candidates.
More than £3m was spent on publicity for the November 2012 elections, but only £2,700 has been allocated to promote this Thursday’s police elections. Hogg said in his resignation statement: “Hundreds of millions of pounds of public money are at stake; partners are hanging on news of their commissioning funding source; the criminal justice system awaits an end-to-end review in the hands of future PCCs, yet silence from the government.”
He added that the suggestion from the home secretary, Theresa May, that “the only safe PCC was a Conservative one” was “absurd, not least as she had just praised the Labour PCC for Northumbria, Vera Baird, for her work to reduce violence against women and girls and is supposed to provide leadership and support and leadership to all PCCs”. …
East Devon Watch 