Member

We cannot continue with a framework in which highly experienced senior officers are pushed out not because they failed the public but because the governance framework leaves them vulnerable to political whim. This is not about shielding chief constables from accountability; it is about ensuring that accountability sits within a framework that protects the public interest and respects the line between governance and operational control. If we get this wrong, we will continue to lose good leaders and further erode the independence that is so essential to policing by consent. I beg to move.