Dame Vera Baird is a British barrister and politician who has held roles as a government minister,police and crime commissioner,and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
David Charles Jamieson is a British politician who served as the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner from 2014 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party,he was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Devonport from 1992 to 2005 and a Solihull Metropolitan Borough Councillor from 2010 to 2014.
West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England. It is made up of 11 local policing teams,whose boundaries are matched to the nine local authorities within Staffordshire.
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.
Robert Moelwyn Jones,CBE was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Wolverhampton City Council from 1980 to 2013 and as the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012-14.
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner of the West Midlands Police.
The 2014 West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner by-election was a by-election for the position of Police and Crime Commissioner in the West Midlands Police region of the United Kingdom,held on 21 August 2014. It was triggered by the death of Bob Jones,the inaugural West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner,who died on 1 July 2014.
Elections of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales were held on 5 May 2016.
Philip Stanley Seccombe is the Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner,representing the Conservative Party. He was first elected at the elections for police and crime commissioners held across England and Wales on 5 May 2016,with 43,208 votes. He was re-elected at the 2021 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections with 85,963 votes,winning in the first round with 52.07%. He won a third term at the 2024 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections with 45,638 votes,beating his rival candidate by 261 votes.
The West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner (PCC),an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by West Mercia Police in the English counties of Herefordshire,Worcestershire and Shropshire. The post was created in November 2012,following an election held on 15 November 2012,and replaced the West Mercia Police Authority. The current incumbent is John Campion,who represents the Conservative Party.
Andrew John Street is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician who was the managing director of John Lewis from 2007 to 2016 and Mayor of the West Midlands from 2017 to 2024. He was Britain's first openly gay directly-elected metro mayor. Street won the May 2017 mayoral election,defeating Siôn Simon with 50.4% of the vote in the second round. He was re-elected in 2021,defeating Labour candidate Liam Byrne. He sought a third term in 2024 but was narrowly defeated by Labour candidate Richard Parker.
The Mayor of the West Midlands is a directly elected political post who chairs the West Midlands Combined Authority,covering the local authorities serving Birmingham,Coventry,Dudley,Sandwell,Solihull,Walsall and Wolverhampton.
The 2021 West Midlands Mayoral Election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of the West Midlands,on the same day as other local elections across England and Wales,including councillors in six of its seven boroughs and the police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands city region. This was the second election for the post,which had its first election in 2017 due to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016. The mayor was elected using the supplementary vote system. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020,but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Yvonne Mosquito is a British politician who served as the 109th Lord Mayor of Birmingham between 2018 and 2019 for the Labour Party. She has served as a member of Birmingham City Council from 1996,currently for the ward of Bordesley and Highgate and until 2018 for the ward of Nechells. Mosquito also served as West Midlands Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2016,until a suspension in March 2016 after visiting the family of a murder victim.
Elections of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales were held on 6 May 2021,on the same day as the Senedd election in Wales and the local elections in England. This was the third time police and crime commissioner elections have been held. The elections were originally due to take place in May 2020 but were postponed by 12 months in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Turnout was an average of 34.1% across the elections,with Wales having much higher turnout mainly due to the simultaneous Senedd election held across Wales,whereas only parts of England had simultaneous local elections.
Angelique Foster is a British politician who was elected Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner in 2021.
The 2024 West Midlands mayoral election was held on 2 May 2024 to elect the mayor of the West Midlands. The election took place on the same day as other local elections across England and Wales. Richard Parker of the Labour Party won the election,narrowly defeating incumbent Conservative mayor Andy Street,who was running for a third term.
Elections for police and crime commissioners in England and Wales took place on 2 May 2024,the same day as local elections in England.
