Sentence examples for setting policing from inspiring English sources

Whoever is elected will play a key role in the governance of West Midlands police, setting policing priorities and working with the force's chief constable, Chris Sims, to set a budget of more than £500m, against a backdrop of government-imposed cuts.

Supporters argue that elected commissioners make policing more accountable and responsive to local needs because, for example, they consult with victims of crime when setting policing priorities.

"Surely, Lord Officer John," you state, in measured tones, "when setting policing policy, you should be obliged to prioritise the rights of the individual to go about unmolested, over the rights of the collective to have a poorly-demonstrated marginal improvement in their safety and security?

For the first time ever an individual who is responsible for setting police budgets and strategic priorities will be elected".

"At around 6 30 am, nine thugs carrying knives attacked a police station in Kashgar's Yarkand county, throwing explosive devices and setting police cars on fire," the brief statement said.

Just a national doubling-down on enforcement, with still more border fencing and immigration agents, workplaces locked down, and states and localities setting police dragnets on what always was — and still ought to be — federal turf.

PCCs will take over from the police authority and be responsible for controlling the budget and setting police priorities.

In Friday's violence, police fought with demonstrators, some throwing stones and fireworks and setting police vehicles on fire, in several districts in the capital.

The plans have called into question the role of Greater Manchester's police and crime commissioner (PCC), as responsibility for setting police budgets would be transferred to the elected mayor.

It seems that in setting police policy the key person is not the police commissioner but the mayor.

We recently spoke to him over Skype about the impetus for the project and the politics of setting police scanner audio to ambient music.