Home secretary says PCCs, in England and Wales, were ‘failed experiment’ – and scrapping them will save £100m over this parliamentUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters will abolish elected police and crime commissioners, declaring them to be an expensive failure, with a large proportion of people unaware of them.Under the system, introduced under the Conservatives in 2012, all 43 police forces across England and Wales had to answer to an elected official. It was supposed to boost the accountability and performances of police forces. Continue reading...