Quote ="maurice"So it's the local mayor who decides when a case goes to court these days, can't see that on the job description anywhere'"
It is the Mayor and Deputy Mayor's role to hold the Chief Constable to account, as PCC (Police and Crime commissioner).
I am not sure of how much you know the of the criminal justice system, but the decision on who is charged with a criminal offence, which is then subsequently heard in a criminal court belongs with the CPS. The police should present the CPS with evidence regardless of whether it supports or undermines the prosecution case.
Andy Burnham here was shouting out for an independent review of the GMP's anti corruption unit (known for being bent within GMP)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-34587260 = There is also reference in here of corrupt practices that falsely imprisoned a police officer and badgered a witness until he was ill. He has since died.
Now he is in office he hasn't made this happen.
Here is another example of when he hasn't acted despite being presented with evidence of fraud, false accounting and avoiding property tax by GMP
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hreat.html
BTW the 'threat' was fabricated by GMP to help Steve Heywood sell a house he couldn't sell, he didn't move for work he moved 5 miles away.
There is an awful lot more he has been presented with and has done nothing about.
He is a barking dog that wants the limelight buy fails to act when it is difficult to do so.
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