SIR – So, our new (and seemingly naive and inexperienced,) police and crime commissioner Bill Longmore has gone ahead anyway, and appointed his old police mucker as his deputy (Worcester News, December 13).
He seems blissfully and wilfully unaware of the Committee on Standards in Public Life set up under Lord Nolan during the mid-90s.
It developed the seven principles of public life, which were, and remain: selflessness, objectivity, integrity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
Longmore has driven a fleet of coaches and horses through at least six of these; and I would argue that he has disregarded the whole seven – in one go.
Perhaps he has never heard of them.
In any event, this is desperately frightening stuff.
DAVID BARLOW
Worcester
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