Sentences with phrase «northumbria police and crime»

Labour has selected a former parish priest to challenge for the vacant Police and Crime Commissioner role in South Yorkshire.

It comes as the former cabinet member responsible for children's services in Rotherham is facing pressure to stand down from his new role as South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner.

The study carried out by Tony Lloyd, the police and crime commissioner for Greater Manchester, blamed the sexualisation of children and greater exposure to explicit music videos.

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It's led several other figures including the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Suffolk to question the MP's position.

The Conservative leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead also wrote a letter to Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley Police, Anthony Stansfeld, dated 2nd January, calling on officers to take action.

Tottenham Hotspur Foundation works with the Mayor of London to deliver a successful football - based youth mentoring programme funded by the Premier League and Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime will now buy three of the weapons second hand from the German federal police.

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The mayor became the police and crime commissioner for London in 2011, but handed over responsibility to his deputy mayor for policing and crime, swapping an imperfect system for a disastrously flawed one.

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The former deputy prime minister was criticised by South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner for his opposition to Sheffield city council's controversial tree - felling programme.

PCC Ron Hogg: serving police and crime commissioner for Durham spoke alongside Mike Barton, the chief constable of Durham police force.

Labour police and crime commissioner Dr Alan Billings has now made it clear that he is unimpressed with the former deputy prime minister's tone.

Note: The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC) is now used in the budget in place of the Metropolitan Police Authority as the former replaced the latter on 16 January 2012 following the enactment of the relevant clauses in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.

The government's policing and crime bill published last week includes plans to introduce a mandatory code of practice for alcohol retailers, a move welcomed by Alcohol Concern.

The creation of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in 2012 may have contributed modestly to this result.

This introduced the office of the Police and crime commissioner in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, again using the supplementary vote.

From May next year, the public will be able to elect a police and crime commissioner for their police force area, who will have the power to set the policing budget, determine the policing plan and hire and fire the chief constable.

In what has been dubbed «Super Thursday», elections are taking place for 124 English councils, the Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland and Welsh Assemblies, as well as for police and crime commissioners.

Vivien Lowndes and I argue it will be essential that the Mayor learns from the good practices of (some) Police and Crime Commissioners and avoids some weaknesses in opening up transparency of decision making — allowing public questions and providing information about the timing and outcomes of decisions.

New name and new uniform would have helped to make some distance between new police and crimes committed by old militia and would help to improve image of law enforcement.

The final step in this evolution towards executive presidentialism is the attempt to create directly elected Mayors (Police and Crime Commissioners is a parallel change in the same direction).

This research project includes interviews with Police and Crime Commissioners, Chief Finance Officers and other senior stakeholders.

I will turn to accountability later, but that too will be kept local, through beat meetings, crime maps and directly - elected police and crime commissioners.

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.

Bettws ward in Gwent, Wales, may not be the typical bellwether for the nation's politics, but its significance rose with the first ever election of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) across England and Wales.

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I have further published work exploring the origins of the 2007 crisis and on the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and the 2014 by - elections.

The former Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex argues that more resources can help, but any available funds need to be spent by the right agencies in the right way.

By constituting police and crime panels (PCPs) with a strategic and effective role in the shake - up they see an opportunity to exert renewed influence over crime and community safety issues.

Dave Jones - the current chief constable of North Yorkshire - was appointed to run the force on a temporary basis, South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner Alan Billings has announced.

Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd, said the club had made the «right decision».

There will also be 41 police and crime commissioner contests in England and Wales.

English Democrats contested five of the 41 Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November 2012.

David Allen also contested the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by - election in October 2014.

I voted by post today and had three ballot papers: mayor, police and crime commissioner, local councillor — which is a lot of decisions to make about our future leaders in one go.

Police and crime commissioner (PCC) candidates emphasise their autonomy and the importance of the electoral mandate in determining policing priorities and disrupting the cosy complacency that is used to characterise the relationship between chief constables and police authorities.

It creates a new role, that of the metro mayor, in addition to local authority leaders, existing city mayors and — depending on whether the local area agrees to merge the two roles or not — police and crime commissioners.

The work of such a CRC could be returned either to the NPS to run (although this is unlikely given how overstretched it is), or to the offices of elected regional mayors or police and crime commissioners — a prospect London Mayor Sadiq Khan has welcomed for probation services in the capital.

It would have been preferable to wait until Police and crime commissioners were in post, in November 2012, before proceeding with this costly process.»

National Executive Committee, 22 July 2014 NEC meetings always start with tributes to members who have died, and in July these included Bob Jones, the police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands, who was just 59.

It suggests extending the majoritarian first - past - the - post system to regional elections for police and crime commissioners and metro mayors.

We do not need the boundaries that currently mark out the territory of chief constables or police and crime commissioners.

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings said: «Mrs Copley has made clear to me that she does not want any further negative publicity or criticism to be levelled at the Force.

Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections in the UK use a system called the Supplementary Vote, where you get two votes to use as you wish for the candidates you support.

She stood for South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner [3] and later defected to UKIP, by 2015 standing for them in the General Election for the constituency of Bridgend.

The first Police and Crime Commissioner elections in 2012 are infamous for their abysmally low turnout and the second batch last week thankfully saw some improvement.

«The fact is not a single councillor in England has won 50 percent of the electorate, not a single MEP has reached the 50 percent threshold, Boris Johnson scraped in with just 37 percent in 2008 and the Government's flagship police and crime commissioner election gained a risible 17 percent.»

Ed Miliband is set to turn this November's police and crime commissioner elections into an effective referendum on the coalition's law and order policies - and has the campaigning power of John Prescott on his side.