Heavyweight policing - Telegraph Watch out, Humberside - there could be a new sheriff in town. Some in the area might have their misgivings over Lord Prescott's potential candidacy for police commissioner, but he meets the criteria. True, he has repeatedly been caught speeding. True, his relationships with his ministerial staff were closer than formality dictates. True, he failed to pay council tax on his grace-and-favour home. But just think of the advantages. The Coalition is after heavyweight figures to stand - and Lord Prescott certainly is that. The jab to the face delivered in retaliation for a thrown egg shows that he favours the short, sharp shock, rather than fashionable nostrums of restorative justice. And if his officers need reinforcements, a man who managed to keep the peace between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown should have no problem breaking up the rowdiest of brawls.