Sentences with phrase «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.

Just 15 % trust elected police and crime commissioners more than the present system to protect their family, according to a poll.

We will work with police and crime commissioners to reduce antisocial behaviour in communities.

But that debate was had two years ago when police and crime commissioners were still a possibility.

Similarly low levels of voter turnout were previously seen when the regional police and crime commissioner roles were initially introduced.

Of course, they will be joined by those independent of police forces, including police and crime commissioners.

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.

I will turn to accountability later, but that too will be kept local, through beat meetings, crime maps and directly - elected police and crime commissioners.

The intervention comes as Ed Miliband faces the prospect of Labour being defeated by Ukip in the election of a new police and crime commissioner in South Yorkshire.

In 2012 Moody stood as Police and crime commissioner for Labour in Wiltshire, reaching the second voting round.

In recent contests Alan Billings won an outright majority as the new police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire, outpolling UKIP in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, and Liz McInnes was elected, albeit narrowly, as the Labour MP for Heywood & Middleton.

Vera Baird, the former Labour MP who is now Northumbria police and crime commissioner, has been made a dame for services to women and equality.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage with the party's candidate for the position of South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner Jack Clarkson (right)

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.

Vera Baird QC, a former Labour MP and minister, is now police and crime commissioner for Northumbria

But the biggest single change to policing structures comes in a little over two months, on 15 November, when the public outside of London will elect their first Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales.

Flynn came out and sat with us, alongside other brave political figures, including MPs Tonia Antoniazzi and Layla Moran and North Wales police and crime commissioner Arfon Jones.

The footage could prove embarrassing for the local police and crime commissioner Adam Simmonds, who enjoyed positive coverage recently due to his reforms to stop and search powers in the county.

MPs are demanding an emergency law to remove police and crime commissioner Shaun Wright from office, after one of the severest grillings in parliamentary history.

«Police ministers and home secretaries, in future, will have to get used to meeting 43 elected police and crime commissioners who have a mandate of their own and want to do things in certain ways,» he said.

Do police and crime commissioner elections merit an exception?

In its judgment the Court, also for the first time, concludes that the power of Police and Crime Commissioners under the 2011 Act «to hold to account» the Chief Constables is limited, and will only arise if a Chief Constable has acted irrationally.

Labour police and crime commissioner Dr Alan Billings has now made it clear that he is unimpressed with the former deputy prime minister's tone.

Nick Clegg calls police and crime commissioners a «failed experiment» and says the Liberal Democrats will not contest the South Yorkshire by - election.

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

There will also be 41 police and crime commissioner contests in England and Wales.

It would have been preferable to wait until Police and crime commissioners were in post, in November 2012, before proceeding with this costly process.»

Cambridgeshire police and crime commissioner Sir Graham Bright, for instance, said: «The government's one nation approach means that the country will work together to tackle extremism and prevent terrorism.»

«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.»

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 officers.

Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

In creating Police and Crime Commissioners, Parliament quite deliberately changed the relationship between people and their police forces.

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.

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

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

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.

Durnell stood for the party in the West Midlands police and crime commissioner election in 2016.

The Independent Police Complaints Commissionhas sent the CPS a file on the allegations against Alison Hernandez, the Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner.

A Conservative councillor and former deputy police and crime commissioner under investigation for an alleged assault has stepped down.

Not all areas of the Anglia region held council elections but there was voting for Police and Crime Commissioners everywhere.

These bold outriders for public accountability, though somewhat mired in mystery where the general public are concerned, do enjoy a modest degree of virtue as I recently discovered when interviewing the Dyfed Powys police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon.

Owens» and Hogg's comments come as six police and crime commissioners today threatened the home secretary Theresa May with legal action over her planned changes to the way the police are funded in England and Wales.

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.

Speaking at right - leaning think tank Policy Exchange, Theresa May urged future police and crime commissioners (PCCs) to consider the government's policy of allowing groups to set up new schools.