Youngsters meet with police and crime commissioner, David Lloyd

3:00pm Wednesday 6th February 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Rebecca Perring, Reporter

Youngsters meet with police and crime commissioner Youngsters meet with police and crime commissioner

Young people in Watford have been given the chance to meet and share their opinions with the police and crime commissioner, David Lloyd.

Members from Hertfordshire UK Youth Parliament met Councillor Lloyd for a chance to discuss the role of police and crime commissioner and to find policing and crime priorities in the county.

The young people were also encouraged to share their own priorities, as set out in Hertfordshire’s young people’s manifesto and exchanged their views on Councillor Lloyd’s ideas at the meeting last Thursday (January 31) in Youth Point Centre, Watford.

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MarsLander says...
3:30pm Wed 6 Feb 13

"Members from Hertfordshire UK Youth Parliament met Councillor Lloyd"

Isn't this youth parliament a bit of a political joke? There are not proper elections or hustings or even selection of candidates.

I bet most "youths" have no idea who is involved, how to get involved or what it's all about.

I am not convinced it is worthwhile at all, probably just a PR scheme.

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Mohandas says...
5:02pm Wed 6 Feb 13

It has all the hallmarks of listening and doing something but changing absolutely nothing. I would have thought visiting neighbourhoods that experience all kinds of anti-social behaviour would have been a number one priority. It's one way of gathering information on what residents want done and could help to ensure that resouces are better deployed.

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LSC says...
7:26pm Wed 6 Feb 13

I have said it before but I'll say it again. Asking the people how they want the county policed is a complete waste of time, if not dangerous to us all.
It would be like asking me which patients should get priority at hospital A&E. I'm not a doctor, so I don't know.

I'm not going to demand the PCC has a crack down on uninsured drivers; I have no idea how many there are in the local area. I don't know the level of shoplifting in the county; perhaps it is terrible, perhaps it is virtually zero. So who am I to decide whether the police concentrate on it?
I have no idea if there are 300 brothels in the area, or there hasn't been a single one since 1920, so how can I offer an opinion on the police policy on brothels? I have no idea if the people next door are cheating benefits or hacking into NATO computers, so how can I ask for that to be looked into?

Dispose of this ridiculous PR post now and employ some coppers.

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Razor Sharp says...
8:05pm Wed 6 Feb 13

It's a fractured form of democracy, with a framework of opinion, but it isn't informed opinion. There is youth participation, but no real sense of widening participation or youth 'buy-in' in the true sense. Will it change anything for the better? It's democracy pantomime style.

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MarsLander says...
8:40pm Wed 6 Feb 13

Waste of time then.

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