If those are the arguments against, then I'm all in favour.

Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers rails against the idea of locally elected police commissioners over at the BBC.

I'd been in two minds about this idea so far, but (as the post title implies), if those are the arguments against, then I'm all in favour.

I'd suggest, in the interests of fairness, that the ballot paper include an extra option for "I don't want a locally elected police commissioner and would prefer them to be appointed by Whitehall".

That's that fixed. Next.