{"id":260429,"date":"2025-11-13T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260429\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:28:08","slug":"police-and-crime-commissioners-to-be-scrapped-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260429\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to ministers, the saving will allow them to invest an extra \u00a320m in front-line policing every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Though its stated aim was to make forces more accountable to the areas they serve,    the costs of the system and the effectiveness of commissioners has long been criticised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Policing minister Sarah Jones told the Commons on Thursday that the model had &#8220;failed to live up to expectations&#8221; and &#8220;not delivered what it was set up to achieve&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that &#8220;public understanding [of PCCs&#8217; role] remains low despite efforts to raise their profiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones said PCCs had sought to provide strong oversight and tackle crime but the model &#8220;weakened local police accountability and has had perverse impacts on the recruitment of chief constables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PCCs&#8217; main responsibilities include setting an annual budget, appointing chief constables, producing a five year policing plan, and assessing the performance of their force against the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to ministers, the saving will allow them to invest an extra \u00a320m in front-line policing every year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-260429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}