Police and Justice Bill

This is not Americanisation. The word ““sheriff”” derives from an ancient English term—the ““shire reeve””. We would thus restore to this country an ancient institution, which we gave the new world, and which has given it lower crime rates. It is less John Wayne or Dirty Harry and more Rudy Giuliani. He cut crime in New York by 60 per cent. in 10 years and he was locally accountable. We need directly elected people like Rudy Giuliani running our police in this country, not the unaccountable Home Office.