The election of a police commissioner will cost Sussex taxpayers more than £1 million, it has been claimed.
Home Secretary Theresa May has proposed to give voters in the county the right to choose a US-style figurehead to oversee Sussex Police.
But the Sussex Police Authority (SPA) has stated the process of electing a person who will have the power to hire and fire the chief constable would be “upwards of £1 million”.
Critics have questioned if money should be redirected from the policing budget at a time when the force is planning to cut £52 million and 1,000 jobs over the next four years.
For full report see today's Argus.
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