Police and crime commissioners may be on the way out, but they are not going without a fight.
BBC Politics
Some mayors would quite like those powers for themselves and may seek a mandate to take them when they're next up for election. Criticism has followed since, with opposition parties complaining about the leadership of police forces by PCCs and calling for them to be scrapped.last year, the government stated its preference for "mayoral control of Police and Crime Commissioner functions where boundaries align".
Mayors can appoint an unelected deputy for crime and policing to do the job on their behalf, as those in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire have done. In office since 2014, the Labour PCC had already decided to stand down before the new mayor of South Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard, announced he would absorb his responsibilities.Despite his unease, Mr Billings has said he would work with Mr Coppard, if the Labour mayor wished to take on his PCC duties.
To the fury of Mr Foster, the government is now backing mayors who want to abolish the PCC in their area. Even though she does "support a model of running the two things together where it's possible", she doesn't think we're heading towards the abolishment of PCCs.
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