Mione Goldspink's article for the Flyer, November 2015,
November 2015
November 2015
Why can't we quiz our Police Chief? Liberal Democrat County Councillor Malcolm Cowan (Handside and Peartree) is speaking out about the farce where County Councillors are not permitted to ask the Police and Crime Commissioner about policing and crime issues here in Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats are stunned that the newly elected Conservative police Commissioner, David Lloyd, has announced that he will not only take his £75,000 a year PCC salary, but also collect over £18,000 as a county councillor and a Dacorum councillor, including carrying on as Chair of that Council's Development Control Committee.
The Conservative-controlled Hertfordshire County Council Educational Psychologist team has fewer than half the required Psychologists.
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