21 10th September
Having a one-on-one meeting with Charles Hawes was like going to the dentist. You knew it was going to be painful, and you knew he could do whatever he wanted because no-one would be able to hear you scream. For that reason, amongst many others, Culverhouse tried to keep his visits to the Chief Constable down to a minimum.
Hawes had got particularly heavy handed and had begun to try asserting his authority even more since the government had introduced Police and Crime Commissioners in 2012. The PCCs not only regrettably brought politics into policing by being elected members of political parties but they were given powers over the Chief Constables of local forces, who had up until then been able to direct local policing without too much external interference.
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