Sentences with phrase «from police and crime commissioners»

It is ironic that that defiance may well end up coming from police and crime commissioners, who are themselves a creation of the Conservative party.

Not exact matches

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.

Vivien Lowndes and I argue it will be essential that the Mayor learns from the good practices of (some) Police and Crime Commissioners and avoids some weaknesses in opening up transparency of decision making — allowing public questions and providing information about the timing and outcomes of decisions.

«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.

We've been struck by the level of outrage from our supporters about how poorly run these elections have been, and about the posts of police and crime commissioners themselves.

Now police and crime commissioners are about to become a reality it is time we moved the debate on from questions of process and started to talk about what police and crime commissioners can do to deliver better policing and safer communities.

The competing claims from the current and former police commissioners of how to count crime statistics is drawing scrutiny over how those numbers are put together.

Let us report crime statistics without manipulation and let police commissioners prioritise resources on their patch regardless of politically correct pressure from interested sub-groups.

The Home Office decision to skimp on the police and crime commissioner elections is prompting another bout of handwringing, this time from the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) over the threat from extremist parties.

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

However, the findings today from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire forces, and the West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner all concluded that, as of yet, there was inadequate evidence to suggest wrongPolice Service (MPS), Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire forces, and the West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner all concluded that, as of yet, there was inadequate evidence to suggest wrongpolice and crime commissioner all concluded that, as of yet, there was inadequate evidence to suggest wrongdoing.

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.

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.

The proposal from May follows from the example of Adam Simmonds, the Northamptonshire police and crime commissioner, who is set to open a free school with a «crime specific curriculum» this September on the site of the county's police headquarters at Wooton Hall.