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Not quite. When there was a multi-member Police Authority, decisions were made by majority vote. Under the new system, the single Commissioner takes all the decisions, regardless of any disagreements there might be.

It's a form of proportional representation that means that scraping together 30 per cent of the votes isn't enough on its own to get you elected.

As far as I can see, the ONLY point of having an elected Police Commissioner is that it prevents a repetition of David Bellotti (or some other desperate, talentless local politician) getting to be Chair of the Police Authority. Or maybe not.