Do police and crime commissioner elections merit an exception?
Not exact matches
Any kind of by - election - be that a parliamentary one, a
police and crime commissioner by - election or a local government by - election - means the electoral returning officers don't have to bother publishing any statistics at all until February 1st.
We
do not need the boundaries that currently mark out the territory of chief constables or
police and crime commissioners.
Now
police and crime commissioners are about to become a reality it is time we moved the debate on from questions of process
and started to talk about what
police and crime commissioners can
do to deliver better
policing and safer communities.
«In other words, what really are the significant choices one could put before the electorate about how the job of
police and crime commissioner should be
done?»
This week's elections of
Police and Crime Commissioners will
do the same.
Elections for
Police and Crime Commissioners did not take place in Scotland or Northern Ireland as
policing and justice powers are devolved to the Scottish Parliament
and Northern Ireland Assembly.
These bold outriders for public accountability, though somewhat mired in mystery where the general public are concerned,
do enjoy a modest degree of virtue as I recently discovered when interviewing the Dyfed Powys
police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon.