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Wright was the first Police and Crime Commissioner for the area, elected as the Labour Party candidate on 15 November 2012. [4] He was previously a local councillor and member of the police authority. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham reported in August 2014.
Police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives with responsibility for policing in each police area in England and Wales. Each police area — with the exception of Greater London, Greater Manchester, and West Yorkshire, where the directly elected mayor is the policing authority instead — elects a commissioner every four years.
The 2012 police and crime commissioner elections were polls held in most police areas in England and Wales on Thursday 15 November. [1] [2] The direct election of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 [3] but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords. [4]
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Police and crime panels will be able to veto a PCC's proposed precept or proposed candidate for Chief Constable by a two-thirds majority. [21] A National Audit Office report published in January 2014 found that there were "few checks and balances" on the 41 PCCs between elections. It said police and crime panels, which were set up to scrutinise ...
It was later discovered by ITV News that Seed had a second offence of failure to stop. [1] These matters disqualified Seed from the role of Police and Crime Commissioner, as guidance published by the Electoral Commission says PCC candidates cannot seek election if they have been convicted of an offence punishable with a prison sentence ...
The election used the supplementary vote system: voters were instructed to mark the ballot paper with their first and second choices of candidate (although there were an unusually large number of spoilt ballots). If no candidate got a majority of first preference votes, the top two candidates went on to a second round in which second preference ...