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Due to a lack of interest, the idea of police commissioner elections should be abandoned.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dismal-turnout--but-prescotts-rival-still-gets-enough-votes-to-beat-him-8324062.html   The outcome will raise serious doubts over the democratic legitimacy of the victors. voters stay at home in Police Commissioner election  A discredited "Flagship" policy lays in ruins having been rejected by voters. In some places the number of people voting was zero! Overall the turnout was around 15%, the lowest national turnout ever. The new appointees have no mandate and the public has no confidence. The whole "election" should be declared void and the "Flagship" policy abandoned.

Police commissioner elections turnout heads for record low

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/15/police-crime-commissioners-election-turnout#start-of-comments  Polling stations report as few as 5% coming to cast their votes Fears of record low turnout for first Police Commissioner elections  This whole "election" should be declared null and void, the concept completely abandoned  and consigned to the dustbin of history. The government, certain parts of the media and Mail readers would have hysterical fits of outrage if an industrial action decision was passed by a union or unions on such a low vote. (I can almost hear the screams of "Well that's different". In this country hypocrisy rules.)