16/02/2017 Look East

Hello and welcome to the Look East late news.

In the programme tonight: Why the Police and Crime Commissioner

for Essex is bidding to head up the fire and rescue service too.

A man has died after being arrested at a holiday camp in Suffolk -

And an exclusive television interview with Newmarket

jockey Freddy Tylicki, who was paralysed from

Essex could be the first county in the country

to have its own Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner.

Roger Hirst, the current Police and Crime Commissioner,

wants to take on responsibility for the Fire Service as well.

He would control budgets and strategy for both,

but critics say he would have too much power and be

It's a five-year logo that within eight months could be out

Essex's police and crime commissioner thinks an even closer

collaboration between the police and fire service will be more

More can be done, especially since the demands on both

Today, his office launched a 12-week public consultation on the proposal.

Of the three options on the table, the one he favours

If we can align the services and look at doing things

like workshops together, doing IT better together,

so we don't get duplication, using the assets best where they can

be used, if we can look at all of that, we reckon the work

we have done with the support of both the fire and rescue service

and the police service says that they should be saving

It doesn't mean you would have a police officer turn up

to help put out a fire or fire crews to help tackle crime,

but the two services would be more joined up.

These elected representatives, the Essex Fire Authority,

It was an idea first mooted by Roger Hirst's predecessor.

Today, the Fire authority would not go on camera, but a year ago,

It will provide an improving service across Essex,

whichever blue light service the public come in contact with.

A closer alliance with the police, they say, could erode

Norfolk's PCC says his police are looking at closer collaboration

with Fire Service colleagues and Suffolk's Police Commissioner

says he has no definite plans for a similar merger yet.

In Essex, people will have until May to have their say

on whether they would want an even closer marriage between their

Stephen Robinson is a Liberal Democrat councillor

on Essex County Council who is opposed to the plan.

Concentrating the power in one person's hands, last year in terms

of the oversight of the police and combining that with fire is a

mistake because they are not accountable. Once elected for

four-year is, they are a law unto themselves. What you're saying is

you don't object to these services working closely together, you just

don't want Roger Hurst in charge of them? It is not about the individual

but if the post of Police Commissioner having their role

extended to include fire. The Lib Dems were opposed to the creation of

police commissioners and directly elected mayors because they are not

as accountable as having local elected councillors. How would you

like to see it run? The current Essex Fire authority is a reasonably

effective mechanism for oversight because it involves more people. It

involves councillors who are elected in their districts and they have

oversight of the Fire Service. That will all go and be replaced by one

individual. There is no accountability for that one

individual. Roger Hurst says doing it his way, you are looking at

savings, between 15 and 23 million. The savings have nothing to do with

the governance, the way it is one. The savings are to do with the

operational between the police officers, firefighters and their

operational side, which is operational side, which is

absolutely a good thing and would potentially be a good thing with the

Ambulance Service as well. The key thing is Public accountability and

putting all the power in one person's hands removes

accountability. The Independent Police Complaints

Commission has launched an investigation into the death

of a man after he was arrested Paul Gladwell, who was 38

and from Colchester, was detained by staff at Pontins

in Pakefield on Tuesday night The investigation was launched by

the IP CC after Paul Gladwell was arrested here on Tuesday following

what people claim was an altercation. It has been reported

that he had Asperger's and he was arrested on suspicion of assault.

His family say he got in a dispute over one of his children and they

claim he was head-butted by another man. He was arrested by police, put

into a police van and taken to the investigation Centre in Great

Yarmouth and while on the way to that centre, the officers became

concerned for his welfare. He was treated at the scene and taken to

hospital in a serious condition and this afternoon it was confirmed he

died in hospital. What has the IP CC said today? It has issued a

statement today. It has offered its condolences to Mr Gladwell's family

at this extremely difficult time, but it has told us about the

investigation and teams have been on site today, there have been

door-to-door enquiries as well as CCTV being looked at. All of this

information will be gathered to work out what happened surrounding Vista

Gladwell's death and the interaction he had with police.

The cull of 23,000 chickens affected by an outbreak of bird flu

in Suffolk is expected to finish shortly.

The outbreak is the first case of birdflu in this

The chickens are at a poultry farm at Redgrave near Diss.

Tomorrow, once the birds are removed, the farm will be

The East of England Ambulance Service has been issued

with two official warnings, which accuse it of failing to ensure

The notices were imposed by the Health and Safety Executive.

They relate to staff working more than 48 hours a week.

The ambulance service says it has now "agreed a way

All staff must now complete an opt out form if they want to work more

Next tonight, the Newmarket jockey Freddy Tylicki has given his first

television interview since a terrible fall left him

It was during a race at Kempton in October that Freddy was involved

Today, he told our reporter Tom Williams that riding horses

is "like a drug" and getting back on one will help him

So how are you coping with learning to adapt to a new way of living?

You get good days and you get bad days obviously.

Freddy had been an emerging force in the saddle.

A former champion apprentice, last year his best season yet.

At 30 years old he was tipped for the top before tragedy struck,

falling in a four horse pile-up at Kempton in October.

Worse still a T7 paralysis, meaning he has no movement

in the lower half of his body. To be honest a couple of lads

watched the race again and they said to me that I was very lucky

Apparently it was a horrible fall, I have not seen it.

I was there, so there is no point in looking at it again.

In some ways I am lucky to be here, yes.

After weeks in intensive care, Freddy's rehabilitation

Experts at the London spinal cord unit keep him busy.

Specialist equipment keeps his muscles moving.

I would never regret being a jockey, I love my job,

I live for the industry, I live for my job.

I started riding racehorses when I was 11 or 12 years of age

and it is like a drug, once you start wth

Do you think there might be a chance you could ride again?

Most definitely, I have a riding lesson next Wednesday.

So you really are getting straight back on a horse?

It will not be a racehorse, something slower, but life goes

on and you have to make the most of it.

That's all from me, coming up now the weather with Alex,

Good evening. There was some rain earlier and fairly cloudy

conditions. Most of that rain has cleared into the North Sea, so it

will be a largely dry night and quite misty as well in places.

Temperatures down to six or seven Celsius. Tomorrow morning we have

this weather system quite close by. It will bring quite a lot of cloud

first thing, possibly rain as well but high pressure building so a

fairly settled forecast for the next few days. We might have more cloud

around generally but there should be some brighter spells. Into the

afternoon, a good chance of seeing some sunshine and temperatures of

ten or 11 Celsius with a light and variable wind. The National weather

is coming up but here is the outlook and for the weekend the temperatures

are staying miles. Cloudy