Elected Police and Crime Commissioners face the chop if Ed Miliband becomes PM, reports the Sunday People.
Labour wants to scrap the office, which replaced police authorities in 2012.
It follows the refusal of South Yorkshire’s Shaun Wright to quit his £85,000 job over the Rotherham abuse scandal.
He was a councillor there and in charge of children’s services from 2005 to 2010.
Mr Wright has left the Labour party but is clinging to his PCC post. Mr Miliband thinks PCCs are unaccountable. A review for Labour by ex-Met commissioner Lord Stevens called the system flawed.
A senior party source said: “They’re finished. The only question now is what we will replace them with.”
PCCs, elected every four years, hire and fire chief constables, set police priorities and run budgets.
They have been accused of politicising the police and useless meddling. Kent’s PCC Ann Barnes faced calls to resign in June after her appearance in a fly-on-the-wall TV documentary was criticised as turning the force into a “laughing stock”.
She was also blasted for appointing a 17-year-old youth commissioner who later quit over offensive tweets.
A recent by-election for the West Midlands commissioner saw Labour’s David Jamieson win on a turnout of only 10%. Norfolk PCC Stephen Bett quit during a probe into his expenses but later returned to the job.
And Hertfordshire’s David Lloyd was accused of “cronyism” after appointing one of his neighbours, David Gibson, as his £50,000 deputy.
Mr Lloyd’s fund-raising ideas, such as selling ad space on police vehicles and charging arrested people for cell accommodation, raised eyebrows.
If Mr Miliband wins power the PCCs will cease to exist from May 2016.
Only 15% of voters turned out at elections for them in 2012.