Police and Crime Commissioners: Accountability
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure local accountability for policing following the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners, and whether she will publish the accountability framework before the Police Bill completes its passage.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The Home Office is working with policing and local government stakeholders to design and implement future governance arrangements to replace Police and Crime Commissioners from May 2028. We will introduce a system of police governance that maintains consistently high standards of oversight, is joined up with other local services and that the public can trust.
We will bring forward legislation to create future governance arrangements within this parliamentary session, with subsequent guidance and necessary secondary legislation to follow.
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