The first of possibly many elections no one has ever heard of and (more importantly) no one cares about: The Police and Crime Commissioner.
The crime commissioner or (misleadingly) PCC (as he/she is not a PC in any shape or form) will not be directly involved in front line policing. They will have the all 'important' and not at all pointless role of:
- Setting force budgets
- Agreeing local policing policies
- recruiting and dismissing chief constables
Furthermore, can these elections even be classed as legitimate? With appalling voter turnout in every constituency, Manchester recorded it's worst byelection turnout ever. With less than 20% of the electoral vote in many places, half our residents won't even know who it was they didn't vote for! To conclude: what's the point?