Lessons from the United States Sheriff on the Electoral Selection of Police Commissioners in England and Wales

Baldi, Gregory; LaFrance, Casey

doi:10.1093/police/pas048

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“…Overall, this suggests that the introduction of directly elected individuals responsible for providing support and overseeing public services has profound effects on accountability relationships within and outside the services. This adds to the literature on directly elected individuals, including the US law enforcement literature on sheriff governance, which has been long established and often politicized (Sampson, 2012; Baldi & LaFrance, 2013). However, further research into the directly elected individual governance models across different countries is needed to fully understand the implications on accountability relationships in public services.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…This adds to the literature on directly elected individuals, including the US law enforcement literature on sheriff governance, which has been long established and often politicized (Sampson, 2012;Baldi & LaFrance, 2013). However, further research into the directly elected individual governance models across different countries is needed to fully understand the implications on accountability relationships in public services.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Police governance in the US has been influenced by politics with directly elected sheriffs enforcing law (Sampson, 2012). Unlike PCCs, American sheriffs have also operational responsibilities, including prisons operation (Baldi & LaFrance, 2013). However, sheriffs do not have a specific police or crime mandate, as their responsibility is generally to hold public sector agencies to account (Mawby & Smith, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This model of governance operated in most police services until its replacement with elected PCCs in 2012. The PCC governance model reflects the equivalent US sheriff governance model (Sampson, 2012; Baldi & LaFrance, 2013). The UK Government established PCCs claiming that they needed to replace indirectly elected police authorities because of dissatisfaction with the performance of police authorities and their lack of engagement with the public (Raine & Keasey, 2012).…”

Section: Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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A comparative study of governance changes on the perceptions of accountability in Fire and Rescue Services in England

Lakoma

2023

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Public organizations are increasingly held accountable by multiple institutions and standards. This study explores how key actors perceive accountability changes in Fire and Rescue Services in England. However, few studies have examined perceptions of accountability where long‐established governance arrangements are changing. The UK's Policing and Crime Act 2017 provided for a new model of governance in the form of a single directly elected commissioner to replace the traditional indirectly elected fire authority. This study uses a comparative multiple case study design to understand the impact of the governance arrangements on individuals' perceptions of accountability within each service. It adds to the wider understanding of the influences of institutional structures on individuals' perceptions and actions, and it demonstrates that accountability perceptions change depending on the way public services are governed.

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A comparative study of governance changes on the perceptions of accountability in Fire and Rescue Services in England

Lakoma

2023

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The importance of liberal values within policing: police and crime commissioners, police independence and the spectre of illiberal democracy

Wood

2014

Policing and Society

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The introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) in England and Wales has reignited discussions about police governance. This paper contributes to these debates by focusing on the role liberal values play within liberal democratic ideals of policing. It suggests, policing principles historically have been informed primarily by liberal goals; that is to say these principles are liberal before they are democratic. Policing in England and Wales today, however, is increasingly informed by democratic values at the expense of liberal principles.The spectre of illiberal democracy is considered here as a warning in light of this development. The paper argues that there is a growing disparity between the rhetoric of liberal policing principles, historically rooted in pre-democratic times, and the reality of contemporary policing in societies that are increasingly sensitive to democratic expectations. Police independence is used to illustrate this argument. Police independence is still revered in rhetoric today, but the liberal origin of this concept is not recognised. But the idea that the police should retain a degree of freedom from political interference makes sense from a liberal perspective, one that is increasingly difficult to defend as liberal values decline in importance, and democratic aspirations come to the fore. The paper concludes by suggesting that liberal values are, on the one hand, increasingly difficult to accommodate within contemporary ideas of policing, but are at the same time becoming more necessary, especially following the introduction of PCCs.

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Undercovered, Underinformed: Local News, Local Elections, and U.S. Sheriffs

Meeks

2020

Journalism Studies

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Lessons from the United States Sheriff on the Electoral Selection of Police Commissioners in England and Wales

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

A comparative study of governance changes on the perceptions of accountability in Fire and Rescue Services in England

A comparative study of governance changes on the perceptions of accountability in Fire and Rescue Services in England

The importance of liberal values within policing: police and crime commissioners, police independence and the spectre of illiberal democracy

Undercovered, Underinformed: Local News, Local Elections, and U.S. Sheriffs

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