When the idea of a directly elected commissioner was explained, a few people thought it sounded positive.
"It appears to be a cycle where it drives insurance companies to purchase even more reinsurance, " said Wayne Goodwin, a Democrat who is North Carolina's elected insurance commissioner.
Kent's newly elected police and crime commissioner (PCC) has vowed to be "very visual and very accessible".
Newly-elected police and crime commissioner Paddy Tipping is asking for public feedback to see if the unit should return.
Wiltshire's recently-elected police and crime commissioner has praised a volunteer scheme set up to help tackle crime in the county.
The Thames Valley's newly-elected police and crime commissioner has warned council tax precepts will rise in order to protect police resources.
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Cleveland's newly-elected police and crime commissioner has defended his decision to appoint a former council colleague as his chief of staff.
Conservative leader of North Somerset Council, Nigel Ashton is set to chair the panel for Avon and Somerset once the new commissioner is elected.
The new role of elected police and crime commissioner in the West Midlands should not be filled by an ex-officer, a former chief constable says.
Meanwhile, North Kesteven District Council, West Lindsey District Council, East Lindsey District Council and South Kesteven District Council have all increased their precepts by as much as 4%, as has the newly-elected police and crime commissioner.
Jacques Santer, the commission president, has since ruled that no commissioner should run for elected office.
The former deputy prime minister said tackling anti-social behaviour would be one of his key priorities, if elected as Labour police and crime commissioner.
Conservative candidate Adam Simmonds has been elected Northamptonshire's first police and crime commissioner (PCC).
The former EU President Jacques Santer has been elected as an Euro-MP along with commissioner Emma Bonino.
Conservative John Dwyer has been elected Cheshire's first police and crime commissioner (PCC).
Pete Levy says that if he is elected as Avon and Somerset's police commissioner he aims to eradicate the practice.
Mr Surl is one of four people hoping to be elected as Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner on 15 November.
The Conservative candidate for police commissioner has said if he is elected, he will look at the funding balance between rural and city areas.
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Responding to criticisms of the bill earlier in the debate, Home Office Minister Baroness Browning hit back at fears that centralising power with one commissioner rather than a range of elected councillors would mean some areas of society would not be sufficiently heard.
How could a commissioner claim a genuine mandate if they were elected by fewer than one in five?
Former Manchester Central MP Tony Lloyd has been elected as Greater Manchester's first police and crime commissioner (PCC).
The former deputy chair of Cleveland Police Authority has been elected as the area's first police and crime commissioner (PCC).
Conservative Tony Hogg has been elected as Devon and Cornwall's first police and crime commissioner (PCC).
An attorney and former executive director of the state Republican party, Sweeney was appointed Commissioner of Labor for New York State by newly elected Gov. George Pataki in 1995.
There are delicacies of timing and consultation: the foreign minister will replace an existing commissioner, and the European Parliament, to be re-elected in June 2009, will want a say in at least three of the jobs.
The former police commissioner said the "obvious dangers" of the Tory proposals involving elected officials were that they would make senior officers more compliant and less competent as they sought to satisfy their elected masters.
She has recently denied other rumours suggesting she might become a European commissioner, or leader of the Socialist list for the European Parliament to be elected next year.
Perry spent six years in the Texas House of Representatives, eight years as agriculture commissioner and one year as George W. Bush's lieutenant governor before Bush was elected president in 2000 and Perry assumed the governor's office.
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If elected, Ms Atkins has said she would speak to community groups and charities before deciding how to spend the commissioner's Community Safety Fund.
Prithviraj Chavan, the top elected official of Maharashtra state, said that a government probe had been ordered, and that a deputy municipal commissioner and a senior police officer had been suspended for dereliction of duty.
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