Sentences with phrase «police commissioners»

The city's fire and police commissioners are staying for de Blasio's second term.

Sessions met privately with law enforcement officials — including police commissioners and sheriffs from Suffolk and Nassau, the Hempstead village police chief and representatives from the state police, and the Suffolk probation department.

If President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing — that included police commissioners and law enforcement experts — did not include loopholes in their recommendation for independent prosecutors in police killings, neither should Governor Cuomo's executive order.

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.

The coalition's cack - handed attempt at creating police commissioners is a uniquely dangerous example.

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 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 the new police commissioners oath ring true and polices be rigorously pursued with a view to cutting crime - with serious violent crime at the top.

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

-- the choice to prioritise pet projects, such as free schools, elected police commissioners, and David Cameron's disastrous top down NHS reorganisation - even as school repairs are cancelled, police officers lose their jobs, and patients wait longer.

«Directly elected police commissioners not only compromise autonomy but as our poll shows undermine trust in the community they serve.»

Peers have inflicted a second defeat in as many days against the government, which must now look again at plans to introduce elected police commissioners.

Elected police commissioners are likely to be reinserted into the bill when it returns to the Commons, however.

Elected police commissioners will soon be introduced, but the government must flesh out their precise role in the police force.

This is still above the sort of participation seen in the US mid-term elections (around 40 per cent) and well above the recent vote for UK police commissioners (just 15 per cent), but the implications remain alarming for Europe's political establishment.

Elected police commissioners threaten the bedrock independence of the British police service.

Plans to replace police authorities with directly elected police commissioners have triggered concern among chief constables anxious to avoid the politicisation of policing.

«Meanwhile he wants us to have «elected police commissioners you can elect and kick out» - which basically means making the UK more like the USA.

«You can't expect to be taken seriously if on the one hand you say unions have no mandate to strike - which will only ever have a short - term effect on the public - while on the other, you champion the democratic right of police commissioners to reshape policing in our communities for years to come.»

Blame the mayors of NYC and the police commissioners that they choose for the the endless legal problems of the NYC police force.

The mayor hailed O'Neill as «one of the best - prepared incoming police commissioners this city has ever seen.»

Continue reading «Peter Cuthbertson: The new Police Commissioners must get police back on the beat»»

The Harrison Town Council serves as police commissioners and will ultimately determine the next move after the conclusion of the investigation, which is being conducted by the Law Department.

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.

It is right that we should now move and have directly elected police commissioners to rebalance the policing landscape and restore local democracy.»

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The city Board of Police Commissioners should have been more transparent in the way it handled a complaint by a resident who was tased by police after they mistook him for an assault suspect, a commissioner says.

Newly - elected police commissioners have been given far too much power over chief constables, an influential committee of MPs has found.

Many MPs have been elected by well under 50 percent of their electorate, let alone Police Commissioners or MEPs.

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

In each of these cases, the police commissioners at the time, Ray Kelly and then Bill Bratton gave the officers probation.

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

Newtown's police commissioners want Connecticut law changed so officers and others who responded to last month's deadly school shooting are covered by workers» compensation.

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De Blasio said he has worked with police commissioners under his watch to retrain the police force — emphasizing discretion and de-escalation, and giving officers the ability to give warnings.

In 2012, the first PCC elections, the Conservative Party won most Police Commissioners with 16.

With other forces following his lead it is possible that police commissioners hold the key to real cannabis reform.

- When we are losing thousands of police officers and police staff, how have we ended up spending more on police commissioners than the old police authorities, with more elections currently timetabled for 2016?

The public don't like police commissioners - but that doesn't mean they'll understand Labour's frantic attempt to get rid of them

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.

There are men who have power — there are mayors over cities, police commissioners, United States marshals, governors; there are legislators, both in the Senate and Congress; there are members of various courts and cabinets.

Another Bush nominee, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, withdrew his name from consideration for secretary of homeland security in 2004 after he disclosed that questions had been raised about the legal status of a former housekeeper and nanny.

He also added that he would review security measures in London: «I will reassure all Londoners that today we will be reviewing our own safety measures in light of this attack and that I and the Metropolitan Police commissioner will do everything possible to keep Londoners safe.»

Jacobs: Former police commissioner Charles Ramsey implemented a lot of reforms towards police - involved shootings in the department after the Department of Justice released that study a few years ago.

While Baltimore's police commissioner Kevin Davis said the footage was «as serious as it gets,» the police department also said that they were also looking into whether officers found the bag earlier and tried to reenact how it happened for the camera.

Americans may need to give up some of their freedoms to protect against attacks such as Sunday night's Las Vegas concert massacre, said Howard Safir, former New York City police commissioner.

«This is a grand theft on a scale unseen before,» said Olafur Helgi Kjartansson, the police commissioner on the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, where two of the burglaries took place.

Everything points to this being a highly organized crime,» said The police commissioner of Reykjanes, Olafur Helgi Kjartansson.

Nationalist Party MP Jason Azzopardi told Malta's parliament this week that a police sergeant tipped off the three killers before they were arrested six weeks after the murder — a claim the police commissioner has vehemently denied.

This idea originated with Bernard B. Kerik, a former NYC police commissioner, who tweeted his theory on February 15 — two days earlier, and less than 24 hours after the school shooting that left 17 people dead.

The police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, last year reduced or rejected the oversight board's disciplinary recommendations in a majority of cases.