New top cop for Devon and Cornwall Shaun Sawyer favours community work
THE top cop in Devon and Cornwall is looking for innovative ways of tackling crime and anti-social behaviour.
Shaun Sawyer, who was confirmed as Chief Constable yesterday, told The Herald: "I am seriously thinking of innovative ideas for managing offenders, particularly low-level offenders.
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TOP COP: Shaun Sawyer
"Anti-social behaviour can have a terrible impact and I don't want to under-estimate that, but we need to be innovative in how we deal with offenders."
Young offenders could be sent out to work alongside voluntary groups like the Street Pastors, he said. "This would not be as punishment but as education.
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"I would want to say to them, go out and work with the people who manage people like you and see it through their eyes."
Earlier Mr Sawyer, who has been acting Chief Constable since last March, convinced members of the region's Police and Crime Panel that he was the right man for the job.
The panel, meeting in Plymouth, had the power to veto the choice of Tony Hogg, the elected Police and Crime Commissioner.
In the end all 20 members backed Mr Sawyer.
Mr Sawyer told members, who are drawn from across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, that the public saw issues like anti-social behaviour as important, but other work had to go on behind the scenes.
"We are not immune from terrorism and cyber-crime in the peninsula and I have to deal with it."
And he gave a signal that he supported keeping bobbies on the beat. Whether or not that is the best use of resources "it's what people want", Mr Sawyer said.
Mr Hogg said afterwards: "This gives Shaun Sawyer the mandate to take his plans forward and I look forward to working closely with him."
6 Comments
by HermesThelema
Sunday, February 10 2013, 10:59PM
“CharlieDodd, the victims of suicide cults such as Freemasonry and Church of Scientology are by no means mugs. Imagine the situation were a person who has been recently bereaved went to speak to either of these two cults, who then raised an illusionary homunculus presence in the subconscious of that person a la guardian angel. Imagine then the circumstance were the person (victim) then objects to the pyramid marketing suicide cult ethos of Freemasonry and Church of Scientology at which point the hypnotised expressed of the guardian angel voice is then changed and used in attempt to drive that person to suicide. Mug or as caring as God? A∴A∴ Argenteum Astrum”
by CharlieDodd
Saturday, February 09 2013, 11:19PM
“..HermesThelema said- 'Freemasonry. Church of Scientology. I know all of your lines and I know that you are lying'..
If mugs want to get fleeced by them I couldn't care less..:)”
by HermesThelema
Saturday, February 09 2013, 11:02PM
“Yesterday evening whilst walking through town, a uniformed Freemason announced his 'terms of engagement' via the tumbling town crier oh yea, oh yea, and a Scientologist spake 'we declare war on you', for the fifth or sixth time in as many years. It would appear Shaun Sawyer has done little effort to stop the boredom of these pyramid marketing suicide cults since I wrote to his predecessor in 2008-2009 (who was replaced after rather absent mindedly leaving a police radio to be stolen from his car parked in front of his house), now seemingly having no control over one under his command and one under his authority, and myself having spent 2010 watching a satanic cult walk people in front of me before running the illusion that they were killing them in front of my eyes.
Freemasonry. Church of Scientology. I know all of your lines and I know that you are lying. A∴A∴ Argenteum Astrum”
by CharlieDodd
Saturday, February 09 2013, 8:04PM
“I'd like to see CCTV saturation coverage of every street in the city because crooks will think twice if they know they're being filmed by the all-seeing never-sleeping electronic eyes”
by audreyhepo
Saturday, February 09 2013, 5:49PM
“Let's make sure they are real bobbies who are on the beat - trained police officers is what we want and need.
Is he really interested in innovation and innovative ideas? Why let Plymouth ruin Operation Encompass then ( see yesterdays report in Herald) .”
by newplymouth
Saturday, February 09 2013, 9:18AM
“Good luck Mr Sawyer;
particularly in your handling of the "low lifes"
it is good to hear you want to keep Bobbies on the beat”