While local Southport local councillors’ approach to recent violent crime and anti-social behaviour was to attend talks with senior police officers to discuss the problems, Labour politicians have created a publicity exercise.
Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell (above) has been shipped up to Southport this week and was photographed outside Sainsbury’s.
It is not thought that Liverpool Councillor Emily Spurrell discussed with any Southport residents how many thousands of pounds each year could be spent on policing in Southport with the cash saved from her post. In addition to the £17,277 which she receives as Liverpool City Council’s cabinet member for communities, Ms Spurrell now receives almost £32,000 per year for three days per week as deputy crime commissioner. She is the third Merseyside Labour councillor in a row to be given this job despite £85,000 per year Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy originally telling voters that she would NOT pay for a deputy out of council tax money.
Labour also decided that Ms Burrell was far too busy to have to go through her own mail, so in 2016 they appointed her a Private Secretary, at a cost of £16,828 per year, whose job description includes “to vet incoming correspondence addressed to the Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner/ Chief of Staff, deciding on the most appropriate manner by which it should be dealt with, this ensuring that only relevant correspondence is filtered through to the Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner.”
Labour, in the Money, for the Few.
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