Sentences with phrase «of police and crime commissioners»

[1][2] The direct election of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 [3] but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords.

This week's elections of Police and Crime Commissioners will do the same.

Women make up only 11 % of combined authority representatives and 17.5 % of police and crime commissioners.

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.

Over 120 candidates will be contesting the position of Police and Crime Commissioners for 41 police forces in England and Wales.

The establishment of police and crime commissioners, which concentrates the power of the old police authorities into a single person, is a coalition government proposal.

The commission also backed the concept of police and crime commissioners, which were introduced one year ago.

Bettws ward in Gwent, Wales, may not be the typical bellwether for the nation's politics, but its significance rose with the first ever election of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) across England and Wales.

The creation of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in 2012 may have contributed modestly to this result.

This introduced the office of the Police and crime commissioner in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, again using the supplementary vote.

«In other words, what really are the significant choices one could put before the electorate about how the job of police and crime commissioner should be done?»

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The study carried out by Tony Lloyd, the police and crime commissioner for Greater Manchester, blamed the sexualisation of children and greater exposure to explicit music videos.

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PCC Ron Hogg: serving police and crime commissioner for Durham spoke alongside Mike Barton, the chief constable of Durham police force.

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.

Any kind of by - election - be that a parliamentary one, a police and crime commissioner by - election or a local government by - election - means the electoral returning officers don't have to bother publishing any statistics at all until February 1st.

Dave Jones - the current chief constable of North Yorkshire - was appointed to run the force on a temporary basis, South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner Alan Billings has announced.

I voted by post today and had three ballot papers: mayor, police and crime commissioner, local councillor — which is a lot of decisions to make about our future leaders in one go.

Police and crime commissioner (PCC) candidates emphasise their autonomy and the importance of the electoral mandate in determining policing priorities and disrupting the cosy complacency that is used to characterise the relationship between chief constables and police authorPolice and crime commissioner (PCC) candidates emphasise their autonomy and the importance of the electoral mandate in determining policing priorities and disrupting the cosy complacency that is used to characterise the relationship between chief constables and police authorpolice authorities.

It creates a new role, that of the metro mayor, in addition to local authority leaders, existing city mayors and — depending on whether the local area agrees to merge the two roles or not — police and crime commissioners.

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.

We do not need the boundaries that currently mark out the territory of chief constables or police and crime commissioners.

«The fact is not a single councillor in England has won 50 percent of the electorate, not a single MEP has reached the 50 percent threshold, Boris Johnson scraped in with just 37 percent in 2008 and the Government's flagship police and crime commissioner election gained a risible 17 percent.»

Ed Miliband is set to turn this November's police and crime commissioner elections into an effective referendum on the coalition's law and order policies - and has the campaigning power of John Prescott on his side.

Christopher Graffius, BASC's director of communications, said: «Police and Crime Commissioners will be central to the delivery of services such as firearms licensing.

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

The procurement must be replaced with a new localised approach, that in time provides Police and Crime Commissioners, or the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) in London, with the freedom to opt - out of national provision and commission services locally, in order to involve and empower frontline police and probation offPolice and Crime Commissioners, or the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) in London, with the freedom to opt - out of national provision and commission services locally, in order to involve and empower frontline police and probation offpolice and probation officers.

You've been dying to know the biggest results of the day - the Police and Crime Commissioners.

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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.

In July, Durham's police and crime commissioner said he would effectively decriminalise people who grew small amounts of cannabis, a move welcomed by those who argue that Britain's current drug laws are failing.

Ask yourself if some of the long - running and notorious miscarriages of justice which have come to light in recent years would have taken so long to resolve if campaigning police and crime commissioners had been in place, subjecting themselves to the judgement of the people every four years.

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.

He has been a leading figure in the move towards Police and Crime Commissioners and the College of Policing.

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.

In a briefing with reporters at NYPD Headquarters, a news release that contained a point - by - point rebuttal and an appearance on national television by the current commissioner, Bill Bratton, police officials denied any altering of statistics and defended the city's low crime figures for 2015.

And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbeAnd their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbeand his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.

South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner has accused Nick Clegg of using irresponsible, emotional and exaggerated language in his opposition to Sheffield city council's controversial tree - felling programme.

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.

The conference, entitled The Way Forward in 2018, included speeches and contributions by MPs Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) and Mark Harper (Forest of Dean), South West MEP Ashley Fox, West of England Mayor Tim Bowles, Gloucestershire County Council leader Mark Hawthorne and Police and Crime Commissioners Alison Hernandez (Devon and Cornwall) and Angus Macpherson (Wiltshire and Swindon).

It follows falls in both gross and net immigration; a drop in the crime figures - despite the spending scaleback - and the (admittedly shaky) introduction of police 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.

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.

The Merseyside police and crime commissioner, Jane Kennedy, said members of the «hard left» were creating a climate that encouraged such attacks and said the building — which also houses other businesses — would be given «special attention» by police.

The BBC asked Martin Surl, Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner, for a response and he said he felt Mr Ellis's action of showing off the knife was «unhelpful».

In 1996, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani famously got rid of a talented superstar police commissioner named Bill Bratton — who, yes, committed the ultimate sin: He got on the cover of Time magazine and was credited with bringing crime down — something the mayor was more than happy to take credit for by his lonesome.

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.