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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Rejected petition Review the appointment of all new police commissioners based on turn out at the election.

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Now that the voting is over , and more than 80% of the British public were either, not interested, or hadn't sufficient information to make an educated vote. Should not the government postpone the appointments of the Police commissioners until a suitably significicant percentage of the populaton deems it necessary to vote for them, or treat us like a democracy and realise we really are not interested!

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