A TOP councillor has complained about behind closed doors meetings being staged ahead of one with the Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner.

Jane Mudd, who was elected as a Labour candidate last year to the post that oversees the police service and helps set its priorities, is due to attend a briefing that is only for Monmouthshire County Councillors in September.

While regular meetings of the council, and its various committees, must be held in public, with only limited powers to go into confidential session, the briefings referred to as “member seminars” are closed to the public including members of the press.

Councillor Armand Watts, who chairs Monmouthshire........

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