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| Gwent chief constable told to quit by police commissioner | Gwent chief constable told to quit by police commissioner |
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| A Police and Crime Commissioner has admitted he told his chief constable to retire or quit. | A Police and Crime Commissioner has admitted he told his chief constable to retire or quit. |
| Gwent PCC Ian Johnston told BBC Radio Wales that Carmel Napier's "management style was totally unacceptable". | |
| Mr Johnston said: "The relationship was never going to work because one of the parties never accepted the concept of police and crime commissioners." | Mr Johnston said: "The relationship was never going to work because one of the parties never accepted the concept of police and crime commissioners." |
| Ms Napier has been contacted by the BBC Wales for a response to Mr Johnston's comments. | Ms Napier has been contacted by the BBC Wales for a response to Mr Johnston's comments. |
| Mr Johnston spoke after the local newspaper, the South Wales Argus, obtained leaked documents showing that he had asked her to go. | |
| He told Good Morning Wales that one of the options Ms Napier had was to "test" the evidence he had. | |
| "I can assure you that the evidence I had was absolutely compelling," he said. | "I can assure you that the evidence I had was absolutely compelling," he said. |
| The PCC said Ms Napier did not accept his role. | The PCC said Ms Napier did not accept his role. |
| Mr Johnston added: "The morale in the force is the lowest it's ever been." | Mr Johnston added: "The morale in the force is the lowest it's ever been." |
| He went on: "I had a civilised discussion with the chief constable, I thought we had an agreement that she would retire and access her pension and lump sum and we'd both call it a day. | |
| "But obviously somebody has leaked this document to the Argus and it's not me and it's not my staff. I'm not going to deny that the meeting took place, I'm not going to deny the details in the Argus are not true." | |
| Crime figures | |
| In the leaked documents, Mr Johnston told Ms Napier she had lost the confidence of her officers and staff. Her managerial style was, he alleged, "unacceptably dismissive, abrupt and unhelpful" and he claimed she had failed appropriately to manage internal and external relations and she was "deeply hostile" to the commissioner's role. | |
| Mr Johnston said, as a former police detective, he would not have made the accusations "if I didn't have the evidence to prove them". | |
| The pair met following a public disagreement about crime figures, but Mr Johnston said he was not reacting to that disagreement by giving Ms Napier the ultimatum. | |
| He said: "The public disagreement, which has been going on for some time but has only appeared in the media in recent months, is much broader than the crime statistics themselves. | |
| "My view, and it's obviously not shared by the retired chief constable, was that the crime statistics were being managed in such a way that we were obsessed with reducing the level of recorded crime and we had actually forgotten that we were here to serve the public of Gwent. | |
| "And the public feedback that I was getting was that officers were spending more time on the radio deciding if something should be a crime incident than they were actually getting on and dealing with it." |