(Yesterday, 4:15 pm)Kimlfixit wrote Maybe the Mayor can ask the previous Police and Crime Commissioner how the 'Safer Transport Northumbria" app is going?

She has a record to defend on this sort of thing....and its pretty woeful

The app is still live and working, it just appears to be hidden in the play store - and was after Kim left office. Baring in mind the app was praised and promoted by Rape Crisis Tyneside & Northumbria, amongst other charities helping women and girls that have gone through crisis.

Since she became Mayor, she's also launched the WhatsApp message or SMS directly to a mobile number, rather than the short code, and this is on top of the option in the Pop app.

I don't particularly support her time as PCC, nor did I back her as candidate for Mayor, but there is absolutely no question to her commitment in the safety of women and girls. I've known of her for a long time and she has always been solid on that. 

Let's not brush over the hundreds of millions of funding Northumbria Police had cut since 2010 either. Most of these PCCs ended up not being able to do much more than rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.