Commissioner for Local Administration


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Commissioner for Local Administration

n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Britain) the official name for a local ombudsman who investigates personal complaints of maladministration by police, water, or local authorities, referred through a local-government councillor, and who can require the offending authority to state its intention to make redress
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Meanwhile some residents have started to pester and have now invoked the Commissioner for Local Administration, the "Ombudsman".
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