Councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agreed to Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell’s 2022/23 Budget to increase the police element of council tax by £10 a year (Band D) from 1st April 2022 for Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Knowsley residents despite cost of living concerns

Councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agreed to Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell’s 2022/23 Budget to increase the police element of council tax by £10 a year (Band D) from 1st April 2022 for Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Knowsley residents despite cost of living concerns

Councillors on Merseyside Police and Crime Panel agreed to Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell’s 2022/23 Budget to increase the police element of council tax by £10 a year (Band D) from 1st April 2022 for Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Knowsley residents despite cost of living concerns

                                                             

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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (Knowsley Council) 3rd February 2022 Part 1

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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (Knowsley Council) 3rd February 2022 Part 2

Left - Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Serena Kennedy, Middle - Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside Emily Spurrell at a meeting of Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (3rd February 2022)
Left – Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Serena Kennedy, Middle – Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside Emily Spurrell at a meeting of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (3rd February 2022)

By John Brace (Editor)

First publication date: Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 22:12 (GMT).

On the morning of Thursday 3rd February 2022, in Knowsley Council’s Council Chamber in Huyton, the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel met to consider the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Budget for Merseyside Police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for the 2022/23 financial year.
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What did the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside spend money on in the 2020-21 financial year?

What did the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside spend money on in the 2020-21 financial year?

What did the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside spend money on in the 2020-21 financial year?

                                                       

By John Brace (Editor)
and
Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

First publication date: Friday 3rd September 2021, 9:31 PM (BST).

I’ll start this piece by pointing out that the expenditure detailed below by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside happened during the previous 2020-21 financial year when the Police and Crime Commissioner was Jane Kennedy. Since then a new Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside Emily Spurrell was elected and sworn in.

Below are three invoices for a Ghost police dog statue. Ghost was a Merseyside police dog who died on duty in 2016 and the statue is in the grounds of the Operational Command Centre. The total price of the bronze statue was £16,525.
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So who’s putting up your council tax in Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley and Sefton and what happened when the Race Equality Task Force reported?

So who’s putting up your council tax in Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley and Sefton and what happened when the Race Equality Task Force reported?

So who’s putting up your council tax in Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley and Sefton and what happened when the Race Equality Task Force reported?

                                     

By John Brace (Editor) and Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

First publication date: 7th February 2021, 15:37 (GMT)

Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Andy Cooke (Merseyside Police and Crime Panel) 4th February 2021
Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Andy Cooke (Merseyside Police and Crime Panel) 4th February 2021

This last week has been an interesting one, as politicians decided (despite concerns about affordability) to put up local taxes such as council tax for the people of Merseyside.

Thursday saw a public meeting of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel meet (who are ten councillors appointed by the district councils on Merseyside (Wirral, Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley and Sefton) plus two independent members.
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Why has the report of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel into Phil Davies as preferred candidate for Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner not been published yet?

Why has the report of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel into Phil Davies as preferred candidate for Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner not been published yet?

Why has the report of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel into Phil Davies as preferred candidate for Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner not been published yet?

                                   

By John Brace (Editor)
and
Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

Phil Davies at a public meeting of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Confirmation Hearing 9th April 2020) from a still of a video filmed by Knowsley Council
Phil Davies at a public meeting of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Confirmation Hearing 9th April 2020) from a still of a video filmed by Knowsley Council

Updated 20.4.20 – since this piece was published on the 19.4.20 the letter to the Police and Crime Commissioner and report about her preferred candidate Philip Davies for Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner has been published on the afternoon of the 20.4.20 and can now be read on Knowsley Council’s website.

Following the earlier blog post headlined Phil Davies faced grilling by Merseyside Police and Crime Panel as preferred candidate for Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner post, despite Phil Davies being reported as withdrawing his application I awaited with interest the publication of the report of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel regarding the proposed appointment.
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Merseyside Police and Crime Panel struggle to recruit required extra Co-Opted Member nearly 2 years after resignation

Merseyside Police and Crime Panel struggle to recruit required extra Co-Opted Member nearly 2 years after resignation

Merseyside Police and Crime Panel struggle to recruit required extra Co-Opted Member nearly 2 years after resignation

                                                   

By John Brace (Editor)
and
Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

Councillor Paul Lynch (Chair, Merseyside Police and Crime Panel) 9th April 2020 from a still of a video filmed by Knowsley Council
Councillor Paul Lynch (Chair, Merseyside Police and Crime Panel) 9th April 2020 from a still of a video filmed by Knowsley Council

On Monday I published a piece headlined Phil Davies faced grilling by Merseyside Police and Crime Panel as preferred candidate for Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner post about the meeting last week of the Merseyside Police and Crime Panel. Since then the Liverpool Echo reports that Phil Davies has withdrawn his application.
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