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12. Which brings us to another issue with PCC's

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #11)

Fri Aug 29, 2014, 02:54 AM

Aug 2014

Which is how accountable are they outside of election time?

Members of police authorities could be removed from their position if they weren't doing it well, because many of them were appointed directly by councils within that police force’s area. By contrast, although PCCs are elected, no one has the power to remove them from their office, short of them committing a crime. The person whose job is supposedly to make the police accountable is so unaccountable themselves, they can’t be removed from their office, unlike just about every other executive office in British politics.

And another note, we are now seeing calls for the government to take over the running of South Yorkshire Police, and I would imagine that Rotherham Social Services could suffer the same fate as social services in Doncaster as a result of all this.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/28/rotherham-abuse-south-yorkshire-police-victims-john-mann-shaun-wright

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