South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Police and crime commissioner of South Yorkshire Police | |
Reports to | South Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel |
Appointer | Electorate of South Yorkshire |
Term length | Four years |
Constituting instrument | Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 |
Precursor | South Yorkshire Police Authority |
Inaugural holder | Shaun Wright |
Formation | 22 November 2012 |
Abolished | 7 May 2024 |
Deputy | Deputy South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner |
Website | www |
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner was the police and crime commissioner of the South Yorkshire Police in South Yorkshire.
The post was created on 22 November 2012, following an election held on 15 November 2012, and replaced the South Yorkshire Police Authority.
The current South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner is Alan Billings of the Labour Party, who was elected in 2014 and again in 2016.
The role was created in 2012 and the initial office holder was Shaun Wright, who resigned on 16 September 2014. The police and crime commissioner is required to produce a strategic South Yorkshire Police and Crime Plan, setting out the priorities for the South Yorkshire Police, and their work is scrutinised by the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel.
The police and crime commissioner functions for the South Yorkshire Police area were transferred to the Mayor of South Yorkshire from 7 May 2024. [1]
Name | Political party | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Shaun Wright | Labour [2] | 22 November 2012 | 16 September 2014 | |
Steve Pick (acting) | Independent | 18 September 2014 | 3 November 2014 | |
Alan Billings | Labour | 3 November 2014 | 7 May 2024 | |
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner was elected by the supplementary vote system where there are three or more candidates, or the first past the post system if there are only two. [3] The first election took place in November 2012 (delayed from May 2012) and the next regular election was scheduled for May 2016. Elections take place every four years. [4] The electorate are resident in the four metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield that make up South Yorkshire.
The first election was held in 2012. The candidates were:
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner election, 2012 [9] | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round | |||||
Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | |||||
Labour | Shaun Wright | 74,615 | 51.35% | | |||||
English Democrat | David Allen | 22,608 | 15.56% | | |||||
Conservative | Nigel Bonson | 21,075 | 14.51% | | |||||
UKIP | Jonathan Arnott | 16,773 | 11.54% | | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Robert Teal | 10,223 | 7.04% | | |||||
Turnout | 145,294 | 14.53% | |||||||
Rejected ballots | |||||||||
Total votes | |||||||||
Registered electors | 1,000,015 | ||||||||
Labour win |
Following the resignation of Shaun Wright on 16 September 2014, a by-election must be held within 35 working days by virtue of Section 51 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011. [10] The election was held on 30 October 2014. Turnout was 14.88%. [11]
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, 30 October 2014 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round | ||||
Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | ||||
Labour | Alan Billings | 74,060 | 50.02% | | ||||
UKIP | Jack Clarkson | 46,883 | 31.66% | | ||||
Conservative | Ian Walker [12] | 18,536 | 12.52% | | ||||
English Democrat | David Allen | 8,583 | 5.80% | | ||||
Turnout | 148,062 | 14.88% | ||||||
Labour hold |
This election was held on 5 May 2016. [13]
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner election, 5 May 2016 [14] | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round | ||||
Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | ||||
Labour | Alan Billings | 144,978 | 51.93% | | ||||
UKIP | Gavin Felton | 57,062 | 20.44% | | ||||
Conservative | Ian Walker [12] | 29,904 | 10.71% | | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Joe Otten | 28,060 | 10.05% | | ||||
English Democrat | David Allen | 19,114 | 6.84% | | ||||
Turnout | 279,148 | 28.4% | ||||||
Labour hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Billings* | 165,442 | 53.9 | +2.0 | ||||
Conservative | David Chinchen | 98,851 | 32.2 | +21.5 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Joe Otten | 42,462 | 13.8 | +3.7 | ||||
Turnout | 306,755 | 30.9 | ||||||
Labour hold |
The powers and functions of the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner are derived from the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, replacing those of the South Yorkshire Police Authority. The main functions are: [18]
The work of the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner is scrutinised by the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from the four local authorities in South Yorkshire. [19]
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Plan 2013/17 was published in 2013 and was refreshed in 2014. [20]
The annual salary of the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner was £86,700 in 2021. [21]
South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the north, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north-east, Lincolnshire to the east, Nottinghamshire to the south-east, and Derbyshire to the south and west. The largest settlement is the city of Sheffield.
The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds supermajority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies. The London Assembly was established in 2000. It is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners, publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to the Mayor.
The English Democrats are a right-wing to far-right, English nationalist political party active in England. Being a minor party, it currently has no elected representatives at any level of UK government.
South Yorkshire Police (SYP) is the territorial police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England. The force is led by Chief Constable Lauren Poultney. Oversight is conducted by Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings.
"People's Republic of South Yorkshire" or "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" were nicknames often given to South Yorkshire under the left-wing local governments of the 1980s, especially the municipal socialist administration of Sheffield City Council led by David Blunkett, used by both detractors and supporters of the councils. The councils pursued a social policy radically different from that of Margaret Thatcher's national government, following more closely along the lines of Militant tendency-dominated Liverpool City Council and the Greater London Council led by Ken Livingstone.
Alan Roy Billings is an Anglican priest and Labour politician who served as the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2014 to 2024.
Jonathan William Arnott is a British politician and former schoolteacher. After the 2014 European Parliament election, he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East England region. Originally sitting as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) representative, he resigned from the party on 19 January 2018 to sit as an independent until designating as Brexit Party on 17 April 2019.
The 2012 police and crime commissioner elections were polls held in most police areas in England and Wales on Thursday 15 November. The direct election of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords. The government considers the elected commissioners to have a stronger mandate than the "unelected and invisible police authorities that they replace". The elections took place alongside by-elections for the House of Commons in Cardiff South and Penarth, Corby and Manchester Central, and a mayoral election in Bristol.
A police and crime commissioner is an elected official in England and Wales responsible for generally overseeing police forces. A police, fire and crime commissioner (PFCC) is an elected official in England responsible for generally overseeing both police forces and fire services. Commissioners replaced now-abolished police authorities. The first incumbents were elected on 15 November 2012.
On 29 November 2012, a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Rotherham. The by-election was caused by the resignation of its Member of Parliament Denis MacShane after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices "plainly intended to deceive" the parliamentary expenses authority, an issue dating back to 2009 and a wider parliamentary expenses scandal in the UK. MacShane accepted the office of Chiltern Hundreds on 5 November 2012, formally vacating his seat. The election took place on 29 November 2012, at the same time as by-elections in Croydon North and Middlesbrough which were caused by the deaths of the sitting MPs.
Shaun Wright is a British politician. He was the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2014. He was the first person to hold the post, to which he was elected as a Labour Party candidate on 15 November 2012. As he held a senior position in child services during the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, he faced continual calls to resign. This resulted in his resignation from the Labour Party on 28 August and from his post on 16 September 2014.
Jane Maria Collins is a British politician and horse show-jumper who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2014 to 2019. She was elected in May 2014 as a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), but defected to the Brexit Party in 2019 in the last months of her membership of the European Parliament.
The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is the combined authority for South Yorkshire in England, with powers over transport, economic development and regeneration. It covers a total area of 3,484 km2 (1,345 sq mi) with a population of 1.8 million. The four metropolitan boroughs of South Yorkshire – Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley – are full members of the authority, while the Derbyshire Dales, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield and Bolsover districts of Derbyshire, and the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, are non-constituent members.
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election was a 2014 by-election on 30 October 2014 for the position of Police and Crime Commissioner in the South Yorkshire Police region of the United Kingdom. It was triggered by the resignation of Shaun Wright, the inaugural South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, who stepped down from the position on 16 September 2014 following the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. Wright had been head of children's services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2010, while events surrounding the scandal were taking place. The Labour candidate, Alan Billings, was elected.
Elections of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales were held on 5 May 2016.
The Mayor of South Yorkshire is a combined authority mayor, first elected in May 2018, who chairs the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. The office is currently held by Oliver Coppard.
This page includes the election results of the Yorkshire Party, a regional political party based in Yorkshire.
The Mayor of West Yorkshire is a directly elected mayor responsible for the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire in England. The Mayor chairs and leads the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and assumes the office and powers of the West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
The 2022 South Yorkshire mayoral election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect the Mayor of South Yorkshire, the leader of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. It took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom. The Labour Party candidate, Oliver Coppard, won the election in the second round with 71.4% of the vote.