As the 40 newly elected PCCs start their roles, they can be under no illusion about the scale of the task they face; reduced police budgets, large scale commissioning, increasingly complex crime, a changing devolutionary landscape and then taking over …
Lord Bew, Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life responds to Professor Doig’s blogs about its remit and work. Lord Bew argues that as an independent advisory body in an adversarial Parliamentary democracy, it must rely on evidence …
The decision by the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner to suspend the Chief Constable following the verdict in the Hillsborough inquest is the most high profile illustration of the powers vested in elected PCCs. Prior to the arrival of …
Today the Committee has published the 57 responses it has received in total from the Home Office, Police and Crime Panels, the APCC and Police and Crime Commissioner to its report Tone from the top - local policing – leadership, …
