Sentences with phrase «as police and crime»

Lord Bach, who is chairing Labour's Commission on Access to Justice, resigned from his frontbench role in the House of Lords in May 2016 following his election as Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire, but his review of legal aid is continuing its work.

Some stirrings of interest this week in who might stand as police and crime commissioners when they are elected to oversee police forces outside London next November.

Police and Crime Commissioner elections were for 41 of the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales; [6] only the City of London Police and Metropolitan Police were not involved (the elected Mayor of London is classed as the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Area, while the Court of Common Council fulfils the role for the City Police [7]-RRB-.

[1] This election was held on the same day as other local elections as well as Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

Another 12 gave up their national seats for local ones — as police and crime commissioners, mayors, or to serve on local assemblies.

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

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

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

«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.

Not exact matches

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

This is the first such crime in the nation - and the scale of it has surprised the police, the judiciary as well as the citizens.

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 officers were working as part of Operation Bobcat, which sees plain - clothes police tackle knife crime and robbery in Westminster.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

As a result, a number of researchers are turning their attention to helping police departments and juries better understand the circ u mstances under which eyewitnesses observe crimes and later identify a suspect.»

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

As economic growth brings about more crime, the added costs for police and law courts and prisons should be subtracted.

Not until he has confessed his crime as a sin (to another priest), and his sin as crime (to police), and not until he has accepted and undergone the punishment that is his due, thereby atoning for his sin and his crime, can he be fully redeemed.

Now authorities are investigating the case as a theft, arson and hate crime, police said Tuesday.

If guns are bad, aren't a good deterrent to crime, and can get the owner shot (which, if you discount suicides, barely registers as a single percentage of gun injuries), why then do police and the military have them?

The police had no material evidence placing Thompson — or anyone else — at the crime scene, not so much as a fingerprint, but Thompson had those two weights around his neck that cops look for in suspects: motive and opportunity.

For the next month, parts of the Garfield Park neighborhood will get more police during peak crime hours, as well as added truancy and curfew enforcement.

«We need the full amount back into the consolidated fund,» the statement said, mentioning the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, the Bureau of National Investigations and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) as the agencies to lead the arrest operation

Recent recommendations made in a report on Personal Internet Security by the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee, many of which are backed by the FSB, include increased research into e-crime as well as e-crime victims having the opportunity to report Internet crime to the police and to receive a crime number in return, just like any other type of crime.

The police are frequently failing to record rapes and sexual offences as crimes, a damning report by the national policing inspectorate finds.

Ms Smith said: «One of the issues, of course, as the Chief Constable made clear in Liverpool, is that we need people in local communities to be willing to firstly stand up against gun crime, but also to give information to the police [and] to be willing to come forward.

The police are frequently failing to record rapes and sexual offences as crimes, a damning report by the national policing inspectorate has found.

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.

How police chiefs go about cutting crime is up to them.The last government tested to destruction the idea that you can set policing plans and targets from Whitehall for communities as different as Brixton and Berkshire, Salford and Surrey, Lewisham and Lincolnshire.

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.

Offenses against first responders such as police, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel would be designated a hate crime, according to a bill to be considered on Tuesday in the Senate.

The Parker camp also decried a $ 50,000 donation from homebuilder Bob Perry to the Houston Police Officers Union, which endorsed Locke and sent a mailer attacking the controller as «soft on crime.»

Nelson's LinkedIn profile says he served as a police officer from 2010 to 2017, and then was named a detective in the major crimes division.

Also charged were Mark E. LaViolette, 49, a former Schenectady officer who is a Galway sergeant and works full - time as Schenectady County's director of emergency management, plus Galway sergeant David Goodwin and Mark Kirker, currently a deputy with the Schenectady County sheriff's office who at the time of the alleged crimes was a Glenville police officer.

«We will create a dedicated Border Police Force, as part of a refocused Serious Organised Crime Agency, to enhance national security, improve immigration controls and crack down on the trafficking of people, weapons and drugs.

Faso was never accused of a crime or personally held liable for the improper pension contact, but the Albany Times Union cited «a source close to the investigation» in reporting that «Faso arranged or tried to arrange meetings between the investment firm Kellner DiLeo & Co. and officials at the state Common Retirement Fund, as well as the teachers, police and firefighter funds.»

He also has said that, as Arce's attorney, he considers it «noteworthy» that after the printouts of the conversations were dropped anonymously at the Legislative Office Building on March 1, the State Capitol Police «were given copies of the texts and quickly determined that no crime was committed.»

De Blasio and his campaign have often touted the mayor's record on policing as a strength, pointing to the drop in crime, improvements in police community relations and reductions in the number of arrests for low - level crimes, such as possessing small amounts of marijuana.

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.

Four fifths of the public and victims of crime saw community sentences as a «soft punishment», and 90 % of police officers thought offenders saw such sentences as a soft punishment.

A Suffolk police spokeswoman said: «Around 2 pm officers from Suffolk rural crime team were called to attend at the Great Thurlow hunt as a result of an incident being reported between the hunt and hunt observers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill are scheduled to discuss the year - end crime data at a news conference Thursday, an event that will likely be highlighted by a number of superlatives: the lowest number of major felonies in the modern era of police record keeping, as well as 790 shootings, the fewest in recorded city history.

But Mr Blair wrote: «They need to know clearly that if they do make this move; if they hold their ard fheis by the end of January, pass the ard comhairle motion and, as they say they will, immediately go out and actively encourage everyone in the community to co-operate fully with the police and criminal justice system in tackling crime in all areas, then unionism will not be found wanting.»

«It is incredibly worrying to see the hostile environment being expanded to treat victims and witnesses of crime as suspects by the police.

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

If you run to an embassy, there is no formal extradition process as a rule, and they can even call local police inside to arrest you for your crime.

The by - election was held on the same day as the Manchester Central and Corby by - elections, and the inaugural Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

On why he wrote the book, he said it was in recognition of the Nigeria Police as the nation's core law enforcement agency which is constitutionally saddled with the responsibility of preventing and detecting crime, apprehension and prosecution of offenders, preservation of law and order.

I'm now working at City Hall on the policing and crime agenda across London, but I'll also be drawing on experiences I gained working for a South London Council and as a Londoner to make sure I deliver an exciting campaign that engages new voters and retains our core Tory vote in Lewisham.»

In his role as a leader of the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force, John brought prosecutors, police, clergy, community leaders, and neighbors from differing backgrounds together to successfully reduce violence crime and improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods within our community.