Sentences with phrase «elected police and crime commissioners»

Elected police and crime commissioners should be given powers to set up free schools to help support troubled children, according to Home Secretary Theresa May.

In 2012, the Society criticised Government handling of its policy of elected Police and Crime Commissioners - which led to the lowest turnout in British peacetime history.

In her conference speech, the shadow home secretary confirmed that Labour would drop the Conservatives» failed net migration target and would abolish elected police and crime commissioners.

Only 24 % of people in areas with elections think directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners will make the police more accountable

Further controversy was created by the decision to replace Police Authorities with directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners.

However, the Coalition government decided that from November 2012, Police Authorities should be abolished and replaced with directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners.

Mencap is calling on newly - elected police and crime commissioners to lead the way in this, and ensure the progress made by police services continues.

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.

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.

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

Indeed, given the government's original intention with police and crime commissioners was to encourage independents to stand, Wright may consider that, unencumbered from party allegiance, he is an embodiment of the true spirit of what an elected police and crime commissioner should be.

Not exact matches

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).

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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.

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

Despite Ian Blair's protestations, England and Wales will have 41 newly elected Police & Crime Commissioners (PCCs) on November 16.

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 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.

And we're achieving it through political reform — as with the new Police and Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November, and the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in MAnd we're achieving it through political reform — as with the new Police and Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November, and the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in Mand Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November, and the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in Mand the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in May.

As a system for electing single winners such as Mayors or Police and Crime Commissioners.

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.

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Since February this year MPs have been debating the police reform and social responsibility bill, which proposes to abolish regional police authorities, replacing them with directly elected «police and crime commissioners».

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday he disagreed with a report that challenges the «broken windows» approach to fighting crime, highlighting the fine line he has tried to walk between his popular police commissioner and a political base that elected him to reform the New York Police Deparpolice commissioner and a political base that elected him to reform the New York Police DeparPolice Department.

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are directly elected across England and Wales, in 41 different constituents corresponding to local police serPolice and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are directly elected across England and Wales, in 41 different constituents corresponding to local police serpolice services.

There are numerous tiers of government in the UK for which voters are regularly asked to cast their ballots, including local councils, directly elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, national assemblies and parliaments.The first past the post system for local councils in England and Wales as well as Westminster also means that the nuances of local politics can vary significantly from place to place.

During that time, an election of unprecedented scale outside of a General election year saw 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 60 Welsh Assembly Members, 108 Northern Ireland Assembly Members, 25 London Assembly Members, 4 Mayors, 40 Police and Crime Commissioners, 2 MPs in by - elections and 2,769 councillors, across 124 councils, elected.

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.

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.