{"id":11190,"date":"2012-10-24T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2012-10-24T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:53:08","slug":"police-and-crime-commissioner-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/24\/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and crime commissioner elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>For the first time ever, across England and Wales (excluding London) there will be new Police and Crime Commissioners elected on 15 November 2012.<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_11205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11205 \" title=\"Nologo_4_PCCElectons_big_AH\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/8066936648_cafd169812_o.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11205 \" title=\"Nologo_4_PCCElectons_big_AH\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/8066936648_cafd169812_o.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" \/><\/noscript><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign poster for the first ever PCC elections<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On this date the public can choose a Police and Crime Commissioner for their local police force and have a say when it comes to cutting crime in the area. The elections will affect 41 police forces in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Kay Jenkins, head of the Electoral Commission\u2019s Wales Office, said, \u201cThese are new elections, taking place at an unfamiliar time of year and using a voting system that has not been used in Wales before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From 26 October around 1.4 million\u00a0households across Wales will receive a booklet with information about these new elections and how to vote in them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, across England and Wales (excluding London) there will be new Police and Crime Commissioners elected on 15 November 2012. On this date the public can choose a Police and Crime Commissioner for their local police force and have a say when it comes to cutting crime in the area. The elections will affect 41 police forces in England and Wales. Kay Jenkins, head of the Electoral Commission\u2019s Wales Office, said, \u201cThese are new elections, taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2193,990,2194,164],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-commissioner","tag-crime","tag-elections","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police and crime commissioner elections - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/24\/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police and crime commissioner elections - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For the first time ever, across England and Wales (excluding London) there will be new Police and Crime Commissioners elected on 15 November 2012. 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