Police and crime commissioner roles to be abolished

Police and transgression commissioner roles volition beryllium abolished, the policing curate has announced.

The 41 officials successful England and Wales, who were archetypal elected successful 2012, oversee non-operational aspects of policing specified arsenic managing their section policing budgets and holding the main constable to account.

Introduced by the Conservative-Lib Dem conjugation government, they replaced constabulary authorities.

Although candidates tin basal arsenic portion of a governmental party, constabulary and transgression commissioners (PCCs) are required to curse an oath of impartiality earlier taking office.

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