Question follow-through · 17655

Police and Crime Commissioners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of replacing Police and Crime Commissioners with police panels.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 3 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 5 Dec 2024
Answer: 11 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of replacing Police and Crime Commissioners with police panels.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2024
Answer published
Police and Crime Commissioners play a vital local role acting as the voice of the public and victims in policing, holding Chief Constables to account and leading local partnerships to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour. The government will continue t...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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