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Published on: 18/03/2019 03:31 PMReported by: roving-eye
The Police Commissioner for Merseyside, Rt Hon Jane Kennedy, has announced that her Deputy PCC, Emily Spurrell, has left her position with effect from today, Monday 18th March 2019.
Jane Kennedy said “I am disappointed to report that Emily Spurrell has chosen to resign from her post as my Deputy. She has done so because I confirmed to her that I left the Labour Party after the resignation of Luciana Berger MP and the announcement that Derek Hatton had been re-admitted into party membership.”
“Emily has been an excellent Deputy and has carried forward a number of important projects, in particular leading work on improving the outcomes for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence and in developing a regional policy on tackling violence against women and girls.”
“Emily has been aware that I have been deeply disturbed by the abuse suffered by Luciana Berger and other Labour elected members across Merseyside. I was elected to promote action against hate crime, amongst other things, and am no longer able to defend what the Labour Party allows to happen in its name.”
“I will continue to carry out my duties as the Police Commissioner until I retire from office in May 2020.”
Not a big fan of Ms Kennedy but on this matter she is 100% right in her course of action and if her deputy can't set party politics aside to do the best for the people of Merseyside she shouldn't be in that role in the first place.
So to get this straight in my head ... this is non Political post that Ms Spurrell has resigned from for political reasons.
That appears to be the situation. It was the Labour PCC who personally chose her Labour supporting deputy. These egotists should all be sacked and these phantom placements should be completely disbanded and done away with.
That appears to be the situation. It was the Labour PCC who personally chose her Labour supporting deputy. These egotists should all be sacked and these phantom placements should be completely disbanded and done away with.
Cllr Spurrell was selected as the preferred candidate following a transparent recruitment process, praised by Panel members, which saw 20 people apply for the part-time position and seven people offered interviews.The interviews, which also required candidates to deliver a presentation on the roles and responsibilities of the PCC, were carried out by the Commissioner and her Chief Executive, Clive Howarth, and were independently-observed by a member of the Police and Crime Panel and a HR specialist from Merseyside Police. In the Panel’s letter of confirmation, Vice-Chair Cllr Simon Shaw wrote: “The Panel wished to place on record its satisfaction with the openness and transparency of the recruitment process carried out for this position.”
Although do agree the PCC are expensive organisations set up by the Tories and Lib Dem’s during the coalition, just happens that a labour candidate won.
Seem to remember John Pugh hired and recruited Lib Dem’s to his office as caseworkers too though...
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