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Bob61

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Romany...thank you very much indeed for your input and information. I did indeed check out the government websites even prior to your suggestion, when I was informed I was wrong regarding public elections. Despite being a detached rural beat officer with my own police office and my own beat to run for the last 10 years of my career, and having to attend parish council meetings and other local meetings (something I detested because I was never any good at giving speeches and they were boring anyway) I was never aware that parish councillors were elected every 4 years at public elections.

As I hope I explained earlier, that was possibly because in the areas I have lived and worked there never were any elections for parish councillors for the reasons you have explained. The parish councillors I knew did the job year after year until they died I suspect - lol.

You have explained, and I thank you for it, that there are no mid term elections and that is what I have said all along, and that councillors themselves voted in any applicants for vacant seats. In my experience there were no end of term elections either and I now assume that is because nobody contested the seats.

So I now feel vindicated and the only thing I got wrong was that I said there was no public voting system for parish councillors and I have explained why I believed that and accepted my mistake.

I await an apology but I am sure the ice caps will melt before I get one

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The end of term elections would have been advertised in the same way that council elections are. In most places they are held on the same day.

You feel vindicated and exect an apology that through ignorance you weren't aware that the Parish Councillors you worked with were democratically elected. These are your statements from earlier:

"The problem I have found with villages is that the people 'in charge' i.e. Parish Councillors and members of other 'committees' are all picked from the elite and wealthy and tend to run things the way they want things run with scant regards for the lesser mortals of the village."

"You can put yourself forward as much as you like but you then have to be voted for and seconded, usually by the people already on the committees as there is no public voting system for parish councils and committees, so unless you are well known and 'one of them' you don't get voted in."

No apology from me. I am afraid that I call it dereliction of duty. You obviously weren't working as closely with the councillors as you should have been.

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You can't even accept that you were wrong to criticise everything I was saying in a gentlemanly fashion can you, Not So Nicepix, but you haven't disappointed me as I didn't expect an apology from you.

With regards to your further snide comment about dereliction of duty and not working closely with the councillors, you obviously have little knowledge of the duties of detached beat officers. It was not my 'duty' to work closely with councillors. They had their job to do and I had mine. I was a crook catcher not a politician and I was very good at it, halving the crime rate within the first 5 years of my taking over the job and keeping the rate falling until I retired. You could say I made myself redundant.

My main involvement with the councillors was to keep them aware of policing issues within the Parishes (I say parishes because my beat covered two parishes) and deal with any issues or questions they had regarding the many aspects of policing a rural area. Also to keep myself aware of what they were proposing locally in case it had any impact on my job such as traffic calming issues etc...oh, and to address a whole hall full of councillors and members of the public during their general meetings which scared the pants off me but had to be done

Since I did that particular job for 10 years and attended every council meeting in both parishes whether on or officially off duty I think approximately 240 meetings or so plus other occasional contact is pretty close, don't you?

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