Sentences with phrase «northumbria 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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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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.

«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.

The commission also backed the concept of police and crime commissioners, which were introduced one year ago.

The establishment of police and crime commissioners, which concentrates the power of the old police authorities into a single person, is a coalition government proposal.

«Flawed» police elections have barred a second candidate in two months from standing as a police and crime commissioner (PCC) due to convictions received in childhood.

«The Electoral Commission recommended that the government should arrange for a booklet to be sent to voters with information about all police and crime commissioner candidates in their area,» chief executive Peter Wardle said.

«They will help draft my manifesto and, if elected police and crime commissioner, shape Humberside police's policing plan.»

Christopher Graffius, BASC's director of communications, said: «Police and Crime Commissioners will be central to the delivery of services such as firearms licensing.

John Prescott has become the highest - profile politician to seek election as a police and crime commissioner.

Those elected as Police and Crime Commissioners will have an influence on the delivery of firearms licensing services to the shooting community.

The procurement must be replaced with a new localised approach, that in time provides Police and Crime Commissioners, or the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) in London, with the freedom to opt - out of national provision and commission services locally, in order to involve and empower frontline police and probation officers.

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Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

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In May 2012, voters in 10 out of 11 of England's largest cities rejected proposals for directly elected mayors; and in November 2012, only 14.9 % of voters in England and Wales bothered to elect new Police and Crime Commissioners.

In 2012 Moody stood as Police and crime commissioner for Labour in Wiltshire, reaching the second voting round.

Then there was the Labour selection for Manchester's police and crime commissioner (PCC).

In elections to its board of 53 elected members, 44 % of the electorate voted: much better than the 15.1 % in 2012 elections for police and crime commissioners.

Police and Crime Commissioners» job is to challenge and question.

Vera Baird QC, a former Labour MP and minister, is now police and crime commissioner for Northumbria

Over 120 candidates will be contesting the position of Police and Crime Commissioners for 41 police forces in England and Wales.

Police and Crime Commissioners are charged with securing efficient and effective policing in their area and this includes firearms licensing.

In July, Durham's police and crime commissioner said he would effectively decriminalise people who grew small amounts of cannabis, a move welcomed by those who argue that Britain's current drug laws are failing.