Sentence examples for an elected police from inspiring English sources
Each provincial force is overseen by an elected police and crime commissioner (PCC), whose performance is scrutinized by police and crime panels.
Their demands are overlooked in the scramble to hit city-wide targets.The Conservatives' solution to this mess is to do away with the targets and the police authorities, replacing them with an elected police commissioner for every police force.
Both Labour and Conservatives are promising to introduce monthly beat meetings for the public in every neighbourhood, but Alan Johnson, the home secretary, has already ruled out the options of an elected police commissioner and elected police authority members.
Colonel Tim Collins, the former army officer famed for his inspirational eve-of-battle speech to his troops in the Iraq War, has confirmed that he wants to stand as an elected police commissioner in Kent.
The nearest Britain has to an elected police chief is the London mayor – and he faces checks and balances from the cross-party Metropolitan Police Authority and the home secretary, and has wider responsibilities to distract him from second-guessing police operations.
Other candidates include former Gloucestershire chief constable Tim Brain, who is currently on the panel of Labour's recently announced review into policing; and the former senior Metropolitan police officer Brian Paddick, who is currently the Liberal Democrat candidate for London mayor but who was also previously reported to be interested in standing as an elected police commissioner.
The decision to suspend a chief constable by a newly elected police and crime commissioner (PCC) will be investigated by a special group.
The public rightly don't believe a few elected police chiefs will be better than thousands of police officers at cutting crime, so to make this a priority shows how out of touch on law and order the government has become.
The consequences will be felt for a long time.Mrs May introduced the conference to her party's first official candidate for a post of elected police commissioner: Tim Collins, a former British army colonel who shot to media fame during the Iraq conflict with a widely-praised eve-of-battle speech to his men.
That's a reference to the elected police commissioners plan.
(Theresa May, the home secretary, has already announced a scheme for locally elected police commissioners).The best of times, and the worstThere are uncertainties about how some of these plans will work in practice.
