Lichfield’s MP says he is “very disappointed” after Staffordshire Police was placed under special measures.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services has confirmed that the step has been taken with six forces across the country.
The move to special measures is taken when a force is deemed to be “not responding to a cause of concern, or if it is not succeeding in managing, mitigating or eradicating the cause of concern”.
Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant said he hoped the new Chief Constable would be able to tackle “legacy issues”.
“I am very disappointed to learn that Staffordshire Police have – alongside five other police forces – been placed under special measures.
“London’s Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester, Cleveland, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire have also been placed under special measures following inspections.
“I know that concerns have been expressed about police response times in Staffordshire, including the speed with which 999 emergency calls are answered and the time the police respond to such calls.
“Many of these are legacy issues and I hope that with the new Chief Constable in place along with the new policing model which will see more localised operations, further inspections will demonstrate the faster response times and detection rates we all desire.”
Michael Fabricant
Staffordshire Police has this week announced a move to a localised policing model which will see emergency response officers based at ten local bases – including one in Lichfield – rather than three regional sites as had been the case previously.
Mr Fabricant said:
“I think it is clear that the previous more centralised way of working based on just three hubs in a large county like Staffordshire just didn’t work.
“I’m glad we are moving away from that.
“Once Chief Constable Chris Noble has had a chance to fully consider the inspectorate’s report, I will discuss with him what further changes may need to be made.”
Michael Fabricant
Another fiasco overseen by a Conservative politician. Fabricant forgot to mention that in his statement and just mentioned the Chief Constable who has only just been appointed. The Commissioner seems to be unable to be unable to organise himself with the late submission of his report and unanswered emails. Sounds like his recent report was just a load of waffle too.
Fabrican’t complaining? Hasn’t he been a member of the Party which has decimated the funding for Police Forces over the last 12 years? Only now is the Government allegedly recruiting back to the police officer numbers when they came to power in 2010. Admit that you got it wrong Fabrican’t!
What responsibility does the previous Police Commissioner -Matthew Ellis – take for this sorry situation? He seems to have disappeared into the ether.
We are fed-up, bitter and broke.
Time to get our country back from the Conservakips.
Another catastrophe, orchestrated by the slaughter of budgets, staff, and resources from this Tory government. It’s actually quite interesting the way Fabricant distances himself from this calamity, as if he’s in no way involved. He is. Quite simply HE IS. He voted in favour of funding cuts that have led to this, and now he stands about looking at the dying corpse of the local police force, speculating on “how it went wrong”. The man is a fool, and Lichfield deserves better.
How much more are people prepared to take from this Gov? How much more are they going to be pushed about, lied to, trodden over, and held down? We have an MP who idolises Boris, a known liar and criminal – who will throw anyone under a bus to save his own skin. This man can only be s’mores by someone with a mental defect.
Ladies and gentlemen – I give you, Mike Fabricant.
He should be ashamed not disappointed. This failure is on his watch. He’s too busy playing on Twitter and aspiring to be a low grade celebrity whilst defending the PM and demeaning teachers and nurses.
As a constituent I AM DISAPPOINTED in Mr Fabricant
Am amazed that this MP hasn’t been removed let alone have a say on the Policing model. He does nothing, and I mean nothing for Lichfield. Look around , there’s huge mistakes , recycling fiasco, the demise of the town shops , roads desperate need of repairs and many more I could mention . Useless and clueless. Let me have someone who actually DOES something.
When i was being abused by ex partner, poloce had been numerous times and jack all. They made the situation worse, they were homophobic, an also arrested me for being in my own home. So when I see the police are failing. Too right they are, i opened a complaint. What did they do, disregard it until it was on paper and sent to the inspetorate. Police came out to talk to me, all they wanted was for to close the complaint. The seegeant promised me change, promised me the community police team will regurarly chase up with me to check everything is okay since my 2nd non mol against ex who is trying to kill me. Police here, are just a total joke.
Just shows how out of touch our M P is.
Not only have the police stations been shut, they are also demolished, in Lichfield wondering what they can build there for how many years.
Bit late now trying to improve things, where are they sit on lay-bys or McDonalds, like someone said.
HS2 slip road shut for 15 months, all he’s said is better signage, which won’t make any difference, Lichfield will be gridlocked, if they can’t tunnel under the A 38 in this day and age beyond belief, no pressure from our M P.
The Burntwood/Lichfield road poor surfacing, at election was going to sort out, heard nothing since.
You can keep going on, but no one listens.
I hope people will remember at next election
How ironic is that most police forces are in special measures, while under tory government, Mr fabricant is all about himself
Conservative government for 12 years and Conservative PCC since the post existed and he’s disappointed? He should be downright ashamed !
What does he actually do for this constituency?
Disappointed? Disappointed?! Has he not been listening to the concerns of residents who feel desperately worried about policing in Staffordshire? Not a word about his disappointment for his electors. As for ” legacy issues”, they are all down to his Government, the defunding of public services which he has supported and the two Conservative Commissioners who have been more interested in PR and spin than dealing with the fundamental issues.
Mr Fabricant. On Radio 4’s ask any questions you agreed with me that HS2 was a mess. The police have been seen to support this mess and have also got themselves in a right mess all of their own doing. You, Mr Fabricant have presided over this mess without dealing with the source of this chaos at all. Now please get a grip and grow a pair. We are watching your voting record.
Fabricant has that all too familiar Tory attribute – the ability to forget personal responsibility and to apportion blame on others. All the above comments are true so I’m not going to repeat any here. The answer lies in the ballot box and getting younger people to interested in politics and encouraging them to vote. The Daily Mail curtain twitchers won’t change how they vote but the rest of us can. I’ll be very interested to see what the Labour Party (I’m a member) and the Lib Dems come up with. The idea of a “pact” or an arrangement between the parties is very appealing to me and seems to have upset the Murdoch media. Mind you, as he is now wifeless, he might settle on a new PM to take him mind off things.