I see Ian Blair was on the Andrew Marr Show complaining that Boris Johnson sacked him to show his power as mayor. Or he sacked you for being in charge of the operation to shoot an innocent man,offending family of Soham victims,alleged racism towards Tarique Ghaffur,giving Scotland Yard contracts to an under qualified skiing friend and allowing a 14 percent rise in robberies.
Even if Boris sacked you for none of the reasons and just sacked you because he thought you were not the best man for the Job there should be no complaints. Boris was elected with the third biggest electoral mandate in Europe and his views on Ian Blair were clear before his election. As someone elected with the power to transform London it is logical that he should be able to use any means to do this.Some people claim this makes the police political and makes them less interested in catching criminals and more in pleasing politicians. The police are already political, 42 days act, knife crime stategy and Drugs Policy are political issues that senior police officers have expressed public opinions on. People however are right to fear promotion based on friendship with politicians so as to counter that problem we should directly elect Police Chiefs.
This makes Police Chiefs accountable to their local people and incentivise them to cut crime and get re-elected. These elected Police Cheifs would decide on prority for spending from foot patrols,speed cameras or greater work on stopping burglaries. The variety in leaderships would provide new approaches to solving crime with the most succesful being adopted by other police forces and the least succesful being lost due to the individual responsible not being re elected.
For more information on elected police, read Douglas Carswells blog
