PCC highlights county lines in Rotary meeting
West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner John Campion was the guest at a meeting of Borderland Rotary Club in Oswestry.
Mr Campion has several messages for members and and also gave an outline of the work of a PCC.
He said he had been elected Commissioner in 2016 having previously served in the cabinet of the Worcestershire County Council.
The commissioner said his priorities were the care and support of survivors and victims, a secure West Mercia and a focus on the rebuilding of a visible police presence on the streets. This, he said, would reassure and build back any lost trust in the police.
“We police by consent in this country, so the force must be trusted – and be seen - but we don’t leave any marks. A painter and decorator paints a wall so you can see where he’s been but with the police, when they leave a location, there is no sign of their recent presence so there may be more police about than we think.”
He also discussed online crime and the scourge of the county lines drug problem. He said that a lot of effort and manpower was being used to stamp it out.
Mr Campion concluded by talking about highway policing and said: “There are many deaths on the road and we each have to take responsibility for our own actions and so make the roads safer for everyone.”
