The Welsh Local Government Association welcomed the decision by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to abandon her plans to have directly elected police authority members across Wales and England.
Under the current system police authorities are made up of councillors appointed by their own authority as well as magistrates and other independent members.
However, under this new plan all councillors with except for one on every police authority would have been replaced with directly elected Crime and Policing Representatives (CPR'S) - a plan that was unanimously rejected by every local and police authority in Wales.
Caerphilly council's leader Lindsay Whittle (Caerphilly), the WLGA spokesman for Equality and Social Justice said: "This is absolutely the right decision by the Home Secretary.
There was real potential for extremist candidates to gain control over policing, which must be firmly resisted."
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