Sentences with phrase «elected police authorities»

Ministers want to replace elected police authorities with a single elected police commissioner, who would have the power to hire and fire chief constables and control the budget of their police force.

Not exact matches

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

However, on occasion, turkeys do vote for Christmas, and I should like to welcome the coalition's proposals to abolish police authorities and replace us with directly elected individuals.

The levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.

Surely, the objection is not merely that directly elected individuals will exercise those powers more effectively than police authorities have done to date.

Plans to replace police authorities with directly elected police commissioners have triggered concern among chief constables anxious to avoid the politicisation of policing.

Now, it is certainly fascinating to contrast the benefits of a single, directly elected local champion with the drawbacks of a remote and anonymous police authority.

I was on the Metropolitan Police's Domestic Extremist database for more than ten years, when I was both an elected representative of the people of London and on the Metropolitan Police Authority which exists to scrutinise them.

The government claimed these developments forced it to abandon plans to make police authorities directly elected in the policing and crime bill, which was published last week.

Devolving more power to local authorities, elected police chiefs, the public and patients, and abolishing most quangoes

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

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».

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

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.

Mr Khan was elected as Mayor in May and quickly appointed former Met Police Authority chair Lord Harris to review London's terrorist attack response, in particular how the capital would cope in the event of multiple attacks taking place simultaneously.

Mr Jobling, who was first elected in 2003 and is a member of Merseyside Police Authority, said the proposed cuts to the police force had really botherePolice Authority, said the proposed cuts to the police force had really botherepolice force had really bothered him.

The Cheshire Fire Authority consist of members of the four councils, while governance of Cheshire Constabulary is performer by the elected Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

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Others have the disadvantage of having opposed the whole concept of elected sheriffs - trying to defend a cosy but ineffective niche they enjoyed in Police Authorities.

Before then, the role of PCCs was fulfilled by a board of police authorities, typically made up of 17 members, chosen from a combination of elected politicians and appointed independents, and directly accountable to Parliament.

The powers on offer to combined authorities with an elected mayor will cover transport, housing, planning, policing and public health.