Danielle Stone Police Fire and Crime Commissioner

Danielle Stone Northamptonshire Police Fire and Crime Commissioner  after the dismissal of Nick Adderley

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00:00I'm really relieved that we've come to a conclusion and we can now move on from what's been going on.

00:08I think it's a very sad indictment actually that we've been engaged in a process like this at all.

00:15But I'm glad it's all over.

00:17The Chair was quite critical about the processes for the vetting.

00:21What do you think about that?

00:23I think he was quite right to be and I'm really quite alarmed by it myself.

00:27It'll be one of the first things I raise with our new Home Secretary after the election

00:33because I think obviously we need to improve our processes and definitely need to improve vetting.

00:39How did he slip through the net?

00:42I'm not sure that he did.

00:44I think there was anyway a conception of what a Chief Constable would look like.

00:51I think he met the bill.

00:54For me, a Chief Constable would look slightly different or a lot different.

00:59I would be looking for somebody with competence and integrity first and foremost.

01:05So I think we need to have a competency framework to measure candidates by.

01:10How can the public be sure that this isn't going to happen again?

01:16Well it won't happen again on my watch, I can assure everybody of that

01:20because I shall go through all the paperwork myself and not leave it to anybody else.

01:25But I am very interested in how we can improve the relationship between the police and the people

01:31and I think we need to do that by bringing back neighbourhood policing

01:35and making sure that communities know who their local sergeant, officer, PCSOs are.

01:42What's your message to the people of Northamptonshire,

01:45the people of residence who rely on your police force?

01:49Well what I'd like them to understand is that Nick Adderley is now out.

01:53We have a new leadership team in at the police who are really great.

01:59Everything I've seen from that leadership team and all the police force

02:03is about people wanting to do their very best for the community,

02:07people who understand community and people who know that they are public servants

02:11and are there to do their best.

02:13So I'm very encouraged that we're entering a new era and it's going to be much better.

02:18So you're going to go over people's CVs and make sure that they're correct?

02:22I'm not sure we've got the time or the resource to do that

02:26except for where it becomes apparent that there's something going wrong

02:30and in that case I certainly will do.

02:32What I want to do is make sure that our processes going forward are the correct ones.