I’m standing on May 6th for Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
Why? Well last year Derbyshire police decided to try and scare the population and manned every park entrance en-masse. They wrongly fined two women for drinking coffee, told my friends children that they couldn’t play with a football in the park and chased people across the peaks with drones even though they didn’t know who they were and had no evidence that they had done anything wrong. This political policing has to stop. We need to return to an effective, efficient force offering value for money and good service. All these points are so badly lacking. I will also cut the commissioners office down as the office budget has ballooned to over £1m with 18 staff.