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Elected Police Commissioners: how the elections would work

By Mark Pack | Sun 5th December 2010 - 4:57 pm

The publication this week of the Police Reform And Social Responsibility Bill provided, amongst other matters, details of how the planned elections for Police Commissioners (or, strictly speaking, Police and Crime Commissioners) would be conducted.

The overall plan is to treat them like local elections, with the same electorate and the same polling day in May. However, the Bill also applies the ‘standard’ election system for existing directly elected executive posts to Police Commissioners, namely the supplementary vote.

This is likely to be controversial, both because the supplementary vote is very unpopular with many Liberal Democrats and also because the …

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Posted in Election law and News | Also tagged alternative vote, elected police commissioners, police reform and social responsibility bill and policing | 13 Comments

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