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BBC News Published image copyrightJunab Ali image captionJunab Ali, who heads the independent police panel, was a former Labour candidate for the commissioner role A police force has said it fears it will be in a "precarious situation" without a police and crime commissioner (PCC) at its helm. Without a PCC, no one has authority to fire or hire the Chief Constable. Chief executive of the office of police commissioner Kieran Kilgallen will be made an interim PCC until 19 August. Conservative Party candidate Mr Seed received 40% of the vote in the first round and was elected after it went to a...

THE CURRENT police and crime commissioner and candidates for the role have registered their shock at Jonathon Seed's withdrawl from the race.

A SPECIAL task group of councillors and members of the public will meet this week to discuss the particular effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on…

Councillors are sometimes accused of behaving like unruly schoolchildren when political wrangling breaks out – but they were on their best behaviour when in-person meetings returned in an unusual setting. The first Swindon Borough Council meeting since the pandemic began took place at the Deanery Academy, rather than the civic offices, to allow for social distancing. And the town's ward representatives – sat in serried rows, as if they were in detention – were as good as gold. It was possibly the novelty of the setting at the school's theatre, the largely uncontroversial nature ...

  The PCC election will have to be re-run after Tory Party HQ disbarred Mr Seed because of a 30-year-old drink drive conviction Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner candidate, Jonathon Seed THE election for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner will have to be re-run after the favourite Jonathon Seed won the election by a landslide 41,929 votes. Mr Seed, the Conservative candidate, polled a total of 100,003 first and second preference votes to win the election. He announced that he would have to withdraw after being disbarred by the Tory Party HQ in London because...