Sentences with phrase «for elected police»

The Chicago Teachers Union and groups calling for an elected police oversight board teamed up to pack City Hall on Wednesday in a show of force aimed at pressuring Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen for their respective causes.

House of Lords defeat for elected Police commissioners shows the Liberal Democrats are becoming the Coalition's anti-reform faction

Even more ridiculous is the spectacle of Conservative MPs and Conservative - leaning think - tankers trying to use the riots to back up the case for elected police commissioners — just like they did with the scandal over the Met's links to News International — without realising that the Met is precisely the one police force which is already very close to the elected commissioner model.

Chris Grayling's plans for elected police chiefs will transform the police's idea of accountability.

The proposals for elected police representatives, new cuts in the civil service, assessment for incapacity benefits, flexible working time and tougher immigration procedures are all shared by the Tories.

Not exact matches

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

Last week the BBC reported that arrests for cannabis related offences plummeted 50 % since 2010 and directly elected police commissioners in Durham, Derbyshire, Dorset and Surrey have acknowledged that they will not arrest anyone who grows or possesses small amounts of cannabis.

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.

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.

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

The oratorical flourish at the end of the debate on Syria was the most vivid example of defiance, but it was also Hilary who used a Today programme interview soon after Corbyn had been elected to politely insist that Labour policy was in favour of renewing trident and then to appear once again to express his support for the right of police to «shoot to kill», in both cases against the publicly declared position of his leader.

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.

That law allowed for the pensions of subsequently elected legislators to be taken after a criminal conviction, and defined «public official» in a way that also included rank - and - file state employees but excluded police officers, firefighters and teachers.

Candidates for Nassau County executive said Tuesday night that they would reopen closed police precincts and push for more sales tax revenue to flow to villages if elected.

The imposter, Luqman Abubakari, was arrested by the police after he allegedly hired thugs to abduct NUGS President elect Julian M. Cobbinah at the premises of TV3 when Julian Cobbinah in the company of the Chief Justice of NUGS went to TV3 for an interview on Tuesday 11 October 2016.

In response to the publication by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary of their report «Taking Time for Crime», The President Elect of the Police Superintendents» Association of England and Wales Chief Superintendent Irene Curtis comments: «This report contains no surprises about the disparate levels of support for operational officers and staff... read more

Before entering politics, Simanowitz volunteered with the NYPD's auxiliary police program at the 107th Precinct in Flushing for 15 years, elected officials said.

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.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed the media for the NYPD's crackdown on disclosure of officers» disciplinary records last week — but elected officials and advocates say it is the mayor and the commissioner who are flouting state law.

Millions of Londoners got to the polls on May 5 to elect a new Mayor with responsibility for housing, transport and the police in the capital.

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.

Elected to the County Legislature in 2003, David served as the Chair of the Public Safety committee, later as a Public Safety Advocate to the Sheriff's Department, helping secure millions in grant funding for police departments across Rockland.

Bardirect, the time is well over due as is the time for elected chief police officers!!!

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.

Mr. Bratton, speaking to Matt Lauer in an interview on NBC's Today Show, was asked whether Mayor Bill de Blasio ought to take the advice of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and give a speech in which he perhaps apologizes to police for what unions and some elected officials have characterized as rhetoric hostile to the department.

«For an elected official to utilize a police agency to threaten peaceful protesters merely because they represent a political inconvenience is an egregious abuse of power,» Valle wrote.

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.

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.

City Comptroller - elect and City Councilman John Liu (D - Flushing) was recently ripped off for thousands of dollars by a member of his own staff impersonating his high - profile boss, according to police.

Elected officials have also come forward to show support for the protesters, and to urge them to avoid conflict with the police on Friday.

He then, as a retired former chief of police, ran for and was elected to public office.

«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.&raqFor 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.&raqfor the police, so these will be very powerful figures in communities.»

Haigh, who was elected as MP for Sheffield Heeley in 2015 general election and was the youngest Labour member of that parliament, also railed against the «seven years of prolonged, deep cuts from this Conservative Government that have led to police officer numbers falling and crime rising».

Schneiderman's campaign has hit Donovan for saying he will reorient the AG's office if elected to reduce the focus on policing Wall Street — the method Eliot Spitzer used to create a national profile.

Against a backdrop of tense times among police, protesters and elected officials, Cuomo is weighing a controversial bill that would alter disciplinary procedures for cops.

And we've seen incredible sums ploughed into pet projects - more than # 100 million spent on installing elected police commissioners — money that could have paid for 3,000 new police constables - # 600 million added to the free schools budget in November — money that could pay for the extra 100,000 primary school places we so desperately need - and # 1.8 billion set aside for the costs of NHS reorganisation — half of which would keep 6,000 nurses in post for three years

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.

Police and the general manager of a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn said that 42 fallen headstones were not caused by vandals, explaining the memorials had naturally tipped over due to age — though some elected officials were calling for an investigation, anyway.

The Paris attacks have underscored the extent to which NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio relies on the NYPD, an unlikely position for a liberal Democrat elected with promises to stop police abuses, but who has worked to shed a perception that he is antipolice.

«Mayor Elect de Blasio has made a smart choice for New York in picking Bill Bratton, a law enforcement veteran with a proven record, to lead the City's police force.

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.

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

For elected officials like Ms. James, having a black official in a powerful position in the police department is necessary.

Former Labour minister Vera Baird, now an elected police commissioner, has stripped all references to policing drugs out of her plans for the Northumbria force, and Lib Dem Sarah Brown this week urged Cambridge councillors that arresting cannabis smokers was not «a good use of resources».

At the end of an election, the marked postal voter lists are open for public inspection and also can be purchased by the Electoral Commission, candidates, elected representatives, government departments, police forces, registered political parties and local constituency parties.

The subpoena, a copy of which was obtained by MidHudsonNews.com, calls for: «All original documents, including all correspondence, e-mails, memoranda, and / or notes pertaining to disability claims, disability hearings, and disciplinary actions, potential disciplinary actions or hearings, regarding (a city police officer), including all such documents, generated, possessed or received from any Elected or Appointed City Officials, including the City Comptroller, Civil Service Commissioner, Corporation Counsel or attorneys working for the city... for the period of June 1, 2014, to the present.»

He has also caught flak for not moving as swiftly on police reform and his continued embracing of broken windows policing, a method that activists and some elected officials say disproportionately targets communities of color.

Ignore for a moment that holding referendums on City Mayors and electing Police Commissioners is, apparently, the right thing to do when the country has a debt problem.

The Republican candidate running for mayor of Syracuse says if elected, she would hire 50 additional police officers for the city.

Diaz, who some rumor may eventually run for a citywide elected position, used part of his speech Thursday to call for greater police accountability.