Sentences with phrase «first elected police»

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In 2012 it was employed for the first time to elect Police Commissioners in England and Wales.

First, we need the police to be more accountable to local communities - through the introduction of directly - elected local police commissioners.

Elected officials and anti-police brutality advocates say recording police activity may be a First Amendment right, but that it's time for the city to put that in writing.

A diverse group of celebrities, newsmakers and elected officials including Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg, Ken Burns, Giants coach Tom Coughlin, Brooklyn Nets, New York Islanders, New York Yankees, Carson Daly, Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Rosanna Scotto of Good Day New York, Harry Belafonte, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Police Commissioner William Bratton, Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, are among the first to share welcome messages.

The younger Vallone, who was first elected to his Astoria City Council seat in 2002, pointed to his time in office tackling local issues like graffiti and fighting cuts to the police department's budget as head of the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

«For the first time people will have an individual who's been elected who they can go to with their complaints, who will write the policing plan, set the local taxation for the police, so these will be very powerful figures in communities.»

Then there's Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a fellow police department vet, who became one of the first elected officials to back de Blasio for re-election.

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.

During his first campaign for office in 2001, Suozzi said he would drive himself if elected, but quickly accepted a security detail on advice of police brass.

Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio met with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police counterterrorism experts for what's believed to be his first major briefing on terrorism with the NYPD, The Post has lePolice Commissioner Ray Kelly and police counterterrorism experts for what's believed to be his first major briefing on terrorism with the NYPD, The Post has lepolice counterterrorism experts for what's believed to be his first major briefing on terrorism with the NYPD, The Post has learned.

Campbell was first elected sheriff in 1989 after retiring from the New York State Police.

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.

[11] Ron Hogg was first elected the Durham Police and Crime Commissioner for the force on 15 November 2012.

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.

Muratore, a retired Suffolk County police officer first elected in 2009, did not respond to requests for comment.

The mayor was elected to his first term on campaign promises to curtail police officers» use of stop - and - frisk, which critics argued was tantamount to racial profiling, and to increase affordable housing following years of luxury development and soaring housing prices under his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.

The mayor - elect has said that post, along with police commissioner and first deputy mayor, are the most important to fill.

De Blasio's first big decision as mayor - elect was to take a step in that direction — while at the same time reassuring the city's elites that blood wasn't going to start running in the streets — by reinstalling Bill Bratton as police commissioner.

Elected judges are politicians, i.e., personal politics first; justice second: consider this real life case: police in an American state use the computer of a distributor of child pornography to trace and thereby locate recipients, including the accused X.