Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "It is important that there is confidence in the operational independence of police officers and in the office of constable.
She cited Johnson's decision to put more police officers on late-night London buses as an example of what a commissioner could do without interfering in the operational independence of the police.
The Committee "[r]equests the Secretary-General to promote effective coordination and collaboration in the Office of Internal Oversight Services [OIOS], bearing in mind its operational independence...."....
Economic reforms have included establishing a managed float of the Burmese kyat in 2012, granting the Central Bank operational independence in July 2013, and enacting a new Anti-corruption Law in September 2013.
With the ability to sack a chief constable, they can put considerable pressure on operational decisions, and there is no proper protection for operational independence in the bill.
GORDON BROWN'S decision to grant the Bank of England "operational independence" in monetary policy is an astonishingly bold start for the new chancellor.
Treasury officials apparently informed their new boss that underlying inflation (which excludes mortgage costs) was likely to exceed the government's target of 2 1/2% or less in two years' time had rates not risen.More fundamentally, the decision to give the Bank operational independence in setting interest rates should improve the chances of hitting the inflation target far into the future.
After the early glory days, both as deputy governor and later in the hotter seat, King basked in the reflected acclaim for what was considered, for a time, to be one of Gordon Brown's greatest historic contributions to the British polity: the granting of operational independence in monetary policy to the Bank of England – that is, the power to determine the official short-term rate of interest.
The inspection report said there had been a lowering of operational independence in the way the office of the Police Ombudsman conducted investigations into historical cases.
On taking office as Chancellor of the Exchequer Brown gave the Bank of England operational independence in monetary policy, and thus responsibility for setting interest rates through the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee.
