This year the 41 English and Welsh constabularies outside London will get new elected commissioners to oversee them.

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The figures do not include Dumfries and Galloway or Fife constabularies, meaning the figure will be higher than stated in the 2010-11 statistics.

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An e-petition has been created calling on the government to ensure that different police constabularies work together more closely when granting firearms licences.

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They adopt a different idiom, oriented toward people in businesses, churches, constabularies and intact families, rather than toward single mothers, academics envious of others' success, union members, government workers, criminals and professional Greens or grievance groups.

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