Sentences with phrase «than police commissioner»

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Kelly was commissioner of the New York City Police Department for more than a decade, serving two mayors.

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.

- 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?

For more than two hours today, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton met in a small room off the City Council chambers with some of his fiercest critics to discuss a wide array of public safety issues.

The media - savvy police commissioner about town was at the top of this last year and with good reason: Mr. Bratton is many ways a better politician than the mayor who hired him.

After working on Mayor Byron W. Brown's first mayoral campaign more than 12 years ago — advising the then - candidate on law enforcement issues — Derenda was elevated from the rank of detective sergeant to deputy police commissioner.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday that he will ask city lawmakers for permission to hire more than 1,000 new officers, a turnaround from his earlier resistance to the City Council's push to increase the size of the NYPD.

«There's nothing we're doing that could be more urgent than getting this right,» said the mayor, flanked by his police commissioner, Bill Bratton and his transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg.

County Executive Steve Bellone said he expects to select a new permanent police commissioner «sooner rather than later.»

That year, a police chief and a deputy police commissioner each collected more than $ 800,000 in salary and severance.

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.

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

Liberty, which commissioned the poll from YouGov, fears that elected commissioners could pressure police to use their powers in ways which meets a political agenda, rather than serving the community as a whole.

After becoming police commissioner, James O'Neill has started to shake up the NYPD's hierarchy with more than a dozen promotions set to take effect next week.

Mayor Byron Brown didn't search for job applicants or interview any candidates other than Byron Lockwood before he nominated him to succeed Daniel Derenda as police commissioner in February.

Salary could also become an issue because top sworn personnel can make far more than the $ 179,000 - a-year police commissioner and many are younger than 65, the age at which they could collect both their pension and salary without limits or a state waiver.

He explained further that a Deputy - Inspector General of Police, one Assistant Inspector - General of Police and no fewer than three Police Commissioners will be on the ground to coordinate the operation.

These are police officers who have been dealing with the unions for more than 20 years and we are a very responsible body, even when we want to embark on industrial actions we write officially to the commissioner's office who disseminates our letters to all the security outposts for numbering and as you can see the police from the airport are here.

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.

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

Police commissioner James O'Neil fielded questions on community policing, crime and drugs during the more than 2 - hour meeting.

On Thursday morning, police commissioner Bill Bratton said the Council should focus on supporting the department, rather than enacting new oversight legislation.

New York Police Department veteran Roger Parrino will serve as commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, while Robert Samson, who worked for IBM for more than three decades, will succeed Maggie Miller as the state's chief information officer with the state Office of Information Technology Services.

Many drugs sold in the American marketplace are now imported, transforming what was once largely a domestic agency to one that must police products from more than 200 countries, notes Murray M. Lumpkin, FDA deputy commissioner for international and special programs.

No later than February 15, 2011, the commissioner shall present a report on this topic to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over agriculture policy and finance and provide a copy to the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, the Minnesota Sheriffs» Association, and the Minnesota County Attorneys Association.

Initially, there had been a crisis within the Commission, especially the trained lawyer Commissioners, as to whether it was proper to accept sexual assault and rape allegations for this type of civil resolution, rather than referring them straight away to the police for criminal charges.