About the role of Police and Crime Commissioner
Police and Crime Commissioners were created in England and Wales by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, with the first Election held in 2012 and subsequently in 2016.
The last Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Election was held in May 2021, which had been postponed from 2020 due to the coronavirus. The term of office is usually four years, but because it was postponed, this term has been a period of three years.
In Wales there are four Police Areas, with each area electing a Police and Crime Commissioner. The four Welsh police areas are:
- Dyfed Powys
- Gwent
- North Wales
- South Wales.
The Role of the Police and Crime Commissioner
The Police and Crime Commissioner is responsible for:
- Holding the Police Force to account
- Appointing Chief Constables and dismissing them (if necessary)
- Setting police budgets
- Setting the amount of Council Tax people will pay towards policing
- Setting out policing priorities for the local area
- Overseeing how crime is tackled in the area and setting aims to ensure the police are providing a good service
- Meeting and consulting the public regularly, to listen to their views on policing
- Producing a Police and Crime Plan that sets out local policing priorities
- Deciding how the budget will be spent.
About the election
The Dyfed Powys Police Area covers 4 voting areas and there’s a Local Returning Officer for each:
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys.
Eifion Evans is the Police Area Returning Officer for the Dyfed Powys Police Area for the May 2024 PCC Election and is responsible for the overall conduct of the PCC Election, including:
- Liaising with Local Returning Officers in the Dyfed Powys Police Area
- Publishing the notice of election
- Administering the nomination process
- Publishing the statement of persons nominated and notice of poll
- Encouraging participation
- Ensuring that the requirements as to the content of the candidates’ election addresses and the procedure for submitting those addresses are complied with
- Collating and calculating the number of votes given for each candidate at the PCC election and calculating the result
- Declaration of the result.
Each Local Returning Officer is responsible within their voting area for:
- Encouraging participation
- The provision of polling stations
- The printing of ballot papers
- The conduct of the poll
- Appointing polling station staff
- Managing the postal vote process
- Managing Voter ID
- The verification and count in their voting area
- Transmission of the local totals to the Police Area Returning Officer.
Standing for election
Candidates and Agents’ Briefing
A Candidates and Agents’ Briefing Session was held on 27th February 2024 in advance of the Notice of Election.
Candidates and agents briefing
For further information, please contact us by e-mail RRO-PARO@ceredigion.gov.uk
A further Candidates and Agents’ briefing will be held after the close of nominations. You will be notified of the date and time once you are an official candidate.
Guidance and resources for candidates and their agents
The Electoral Commission has information that would be useful to you if are thinking of standing in the election, including eligibility to stand for election.
Guidance for Candidates and Agents at Police and Crime Commissioner elections | Electoral Commission
Nomination Papers
Nomination papers are available on the Electoral Commission website
Completing your nomination papers | Electoral Commission
All the forms will need to be printed before submitting them and ensure that where signatures are required, you submit the original signed version of each completed paper. Documents without original signatures cannot be accepted.
You will need to submit the following forms by hand:
- Nomination form
- Candidate’s home address form
- Candidate’s consent to nomination
If standing as a party candidate, you will need to submit the following forms by hand or by post:
- Certificate of authorisation
- Request for a party emblem
You will also need to submit the following forms by hand or by post:
- Notification of election agent
- Notification of sub-agent.
Informal checks of Nomination Papers
We will be offering candidates informal checks of your nomination papers before you officially submit them. Information will be provided at the Candidates and Agents’ briefing.
This is highly recommended so that we can check your subscribers are registered to vote in the Dyfed Powys voting area (i.e. in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire or Powys) prior to you formally submitting your nomination papers.
Submitting your Nomination Papers
Appointments should be made for submission of Nomination papers. Appointments will be available between 10.00am and 4.00pm on any working day between 26 March and 5 April 2024.
Appointments can be made by emailing RRO-PARO@ceredigion.gov.uk or by phoning 01545 570881.
Nomination papers must be delivered to the Police Area Returning Officer at Neuadd Cyngor Ceredigion, Penmorfa, Aberaeron, Ceredigion SA46 0PA.
When submitting your nomination papers, please allow 90 minutes or so for the subscriber checks to take place in advance of the formal nomination appointment.
Payment of deposit
The deposit for each candidate of five thousand pounds (£5,000.00) can be deposited with the Police Area Returning Officer by 4.00pm on Friday, 5 April 2024, by direct bank transfer, banker’s draft (banks operating in the UK only) or by cash (British pounds only).
If paying by direct bank transfer, the deposit will need to have reached the bank account prior to the Police Area Returning Officer being able to accept your nomination.
Further information for Candidates and Agents
More information will follow shortly in relation to the arrangements for postal opening sessions, verification and count procedures etc.
Key dates
|
Event |
Working days before poll (deadline if not midnight) |
Date (deadline if not midnight) |
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Publication of notice of election |
Not later than 25 days |
Monday, 25 March 2024 |
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Delivery of nomination papers |
Between the hours of 10am and 4pm on any day after the publication of the notice of election until 4pm on the 19th day before polling day |
Between Tuesday, 26 March and 4pm, Friday, 5 April 2024 |
|
Deadline for delivery of nomination papers |
19 days (4pm) |
4pm on Friday, 5 April 2024 |
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Making objections to nomination papers |
On 19 days (10am to 5pm), subject to the following: Between 10 am – 12 noon objections can be made to all delivered nominations
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Between 10am and 12 noon on Friday, 5 April objections can be made to all delivered nominations Between 12 noon and 5pm on Friday, 5 April objections can only be made to nominations delivered after 4pm on Thursday, 4 April |
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Deadline for withdrawals |
19 days (4pm) |
4pm on Friday, 5 April 2024 |
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Deadline for the notification of appointment of election agent |
19 days (4pm) |
4pm on Friday, 5 April 2024 |
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Publication of first interim election notice of alteration |
19 days |
Friday, 5 April 2024 |
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Publication of statement of persons nominated |
Not later than 18 days (4pm) |
No later than 4pm, Monday, 8 April 2024 |
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Deadline for receiving applications for registration |
12 days |
Tuesday, 16 April 2024 |
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Deadline for receiving new postal vote and postal proxy applications, and for changes to existing postal or proxy votes |
11 days (5pm) |
5pm Wednesday, 17 April 2024 |
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Deadline for receiving new applications to vote by proxy (not postal proxy or emergency proxies) |
6 days (5pm) |
5pm Wednesday, 24 April 2024 |
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Deadline for applications for Voter Authority Certificates |
6 days (5pm) |
5pm Wednesday, 24 April 2024 |
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Publication of second interim election notice of alteration |
Between 18 days and 6 days |
Between Monday, 8 April and Wednesday, 24 April 2024 |
|
Publication of notice of poll |
Not later than 6 days |
Wednesday, 24 April 2024 |
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Publication of final election notice of alteration |
5 days |
Thursday, 25 April 2024 |
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Deadline for notification of appointment of polling agents, counting agents and sub-agents |
5 days |
Thursday, 25 April 2024 |
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First date that electors can apply for a replacement for lost postal votes |
4 days |
Friday, 26 April 2024 |
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Polling day
|
0 (7am to 10pm) |
7am to 10pm on Thursday 2 May |
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Last time that electors can apply for a replacement for spoilt or lost postal votes |
0 (5pm) |
5pm on Thursday, 2 May |
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Deadline for emergency proxy applications |
0 (5pm) |
5pm on Thursday, 2 May |
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Last time to alter the register due to clerical error or court appeal |
0 (9pm) |
9pm on Thursday, 2 May |