page_title: Tony Lloyd
section_title: Police and Crime Commissioner
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Lloyd / Political career / Police and Crime Commissioner
context_page_description: Anthony Joseph Lloyd is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for three constituencies, currently as the MP for Rochdale since 2017. He was MP for Stretford from 1983 and 1997 and MP for Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012. He then became Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017, and interim Mayor of Greater Manchester between 2015 and 2017. Lloyd served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2018 and 2020, resigning as Shadow Secretary of State on 28 April 2020, to recover from his illness of COVID-19. He was replaced by Louise Haigh.
  Born in Stretford, Lloyd served as a Trafford councillor from 1979 to 1984. In 1983 he was elected MP for Stretford, representing the constituency until it was abolished in 1997, at which time he was elected for Manchester Central. As an MP, Lloyd was an opposition spokesman between 1987 and 1997, a Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1997 and 1999, and Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 2006 to 2012.
context_section_description: Lloyd was described by Andrew Roth of The Guardian as a "realistic regionalist"; he supported the creation of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in 2011, but disagreed that there should be an elected Mayor of Greater Manchester. On 15 February 2012, Lloyd announced his intention to resign as a member of parliament to stand as a candidate for the directly-elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester. Lloyd said he was willing to leave the Manchester Central constituency – a Labour safe seat – for the PCC role because in "all the years I have been a MP, one of the abiding issues that people raised with me was fear of crime". The resulting 2012 Manchester Central by-election was scheduled for the same November polling day. In the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections, Lloyd was elected as the inaugural Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, winning with 139,437 votes, a share of 51.23% and approximately 7% of the electorate, prompting the Manchester Evening News to quip that he had become "the most powerful man in Greater Manchester".
  As Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester, Lloyd was one of the Labour Party's highest-profile commissioners, overseeing one of the largest police services in England and Wales outside of Greater London. He received £100,000 per year, the largest salary of any English or Welsh Police and Crime Commissioner. He was based at Salford Civic Centre and was required to devise a five-year strategic plan for Greater Manchester Police and hold Sir Peter Fahy, the force's chief constable, to account. On hearing the news that Lloyd had won the election, Fahy said "one of the key roles of the PCC was negotiating and influencing the other local authorities, the health service, businesses and other organisations ... We will be expecting him to fight for GMP at a national level with the Home Office over resourcing and changes to legislation". At the end of March 2013, Lloyd published the Police and Crime Plan 2013–2016, setting his nine priorities for policing Greater Manchester. These were:
  Driving down crime
  Building and strengthening partnerships
  Tackling anti-social behaviour
  Protecting vulnerable people
  Putting victims at the centre
  Maintaining public safety, dealing with civil emergencies and emerging threats
  Dealing effectively with terrorism, serious crime and organised criminality
  Building confidence in policing services
  Protecting the police service
  The plan outlined Lloyd's vision "for all of us in Greater Manchester to work together to build the safest communities in Britain".
caption: Lloyd in 2015
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