Elected Police Commissioners : Another Trap?

On the surface, it doesn`t sound too bad an idea. Locally elected police commissioners accountable to local needs. Whats more political partiy candidates can stand for election. Lets take a look at the candidates. The Tories will want to lock everybody up (excepting Kenneth Clarke) bring back torture and hanging and sack all the police. A volunteer force with nice black shirt uniforms will be enthusiastically recruited to round up the dregs of society to transport them to Tasmania with the permission of that nice girl from Barry. UK Labour will form a multitude of focus groups of stakeholders to get at the causes of crime and investigate as many strategies as possible to tackle crime. Focus groups will go home to find their homes have been trashed by new black shirted vigilante mobs. The Liberals will try to pick the best features of Labour and Tory plans and adopt a programme where middle class blackshirted (with nice tanker tops) mobs will ask permission before trashing your home. And this is Plaids chance to have a force which operates on a consensual basis with the local community and puts all those allegations of fit ups against Plaid activists in the past. The idea of the police being an organ of the UK state acting in the interests of the propertied classes and those with special privileges will be history. Time will tell. It could be that the poor sucker elected will just have take the rap for putting into action all the Con-Dem cuts of course.