Sentences with phrase «police and crime commissioner»

R (Crompton) v South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner [2017] EWHC 1349 (Admin) Junior to Clive Sheldon QC; the first challenge to a dismissal of a chief constable by a police and crime commissioner, in the context of the Hillsborough Inquests (instructed by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary)

The proposal from May follows from the example of Adam Simmonds, the Northamptonshire police and crime commissioner, who is set to open a free school with a «crime specific curriculum» this September on the site of the county's police headquarters at Wooton Hall.

And Derbyshire's police and crime commissioner Alan Charles even went on to call the internet «the darkest alley of all», prompting the following front page of the Daily Mail.

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.

Lucy Powell was elected last week with a majority of 9,936 in a by - election called following her predecessor Tony Lloyd's decision to run for police and crime commissioner.

On Wednesday, 24 hours after the IPCC issued its report, Glass sent a letter to Ron Ball, the police and crime commissioner for Warwickshire, to clarify her position..

The Independent Police Complaints Commissionhas sent the CPS a file on the allegations against Alison Hernandez, the Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner.

Durnell stood for the party in the West Midlands police and crime commissioner election in 2016.

The number of candidates for the Police and Crime commissioner elections on November 15th is coming through thick and fast.

The BBC asked Martin Surl, Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner, for a response and he said he felt Mr Ellis's action of showing off the knife was «unhelpful».

The Merseyside police and crime commissioner, Jane Kennedy, said members of the «hard left» were creating a climate that encouraged such attacks and said the building — which also houses other businesses — would be given «special attention» by police.

However, the findings today from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire forces, and the West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner all concluded that, as of yet, there was inadequate evidence to suggest wrongdoing.

This police and crime commissioner will have the power to hire and fire your chief constable, set the police budget and produce the policing strategy.

The Electoral Commission is to launch an investigation into the record low turnout in the police and crime commissioner elections that took place across England and Wales yesterday.

Do police and crime commissioner elections merit an exception?

Candidates in last November's first ever police and crime commissioner elections spent a total of # 2.1 m trying to get elected in the four weeks before the polls, an average of # 11,220 each, the Electoral Commission has reported.

Baird, the Northumbria police and crime commissioner, said: «We can not allow rape trials to be inquisitions into the complainant's sex life.

South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner is urged to investigate «repressive» arrests as CPS drops charges

South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner has accused Nick Clegg of using irresponsible, emotional and exaggerated language in his opposition to Sheffield city council's controversial tree - felling programme.

The Home Office decision to skimp on the police and crime commissioner elections is prompting another bout of handwringing, this time from the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) over the threat from extremist parties.

«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?»

So, yes, that means the public will be better informed, and they will hold you to account for your decisions through the police and crime commissioner.

So, yes, that means the public will be better informed, and they will hold you to account for decisions through the police and crime commissioner.

The naysayers predict that turn - out for the police and crime commissioner elections in November...

His call for the shift comes after South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright quit the Labour party following intense pressure to stand aside.

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.

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

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

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

Also on Local government: The number of candidates for the Police and Crime commissioner elections on November 15th is coming through thick and fast and Birmingham City Council pays # 35 million a year in sick pay

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.

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

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

«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.

«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.

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 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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.