Rural crime on agenda at police commissioner hustings event
RESIDENTS living in rural Northants can ask questions of five candidates for the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner role at a hustings event on Monday.
The NFU is organising the hustings event on Monday, October 22 at 7pm at the Hunsbury Hill Centre, Harksome Hill, Northampton, NN4 9QX.
The meeting is being opened to people who live and work in the countryside and who have issues about crime in their locality.
NFU members will be joined by Adam Simmonds (Con), John Norrie (Independent), Paul Varnsverry (Lib Dem), Jim MacArthur (UKIP) and Matt Stockdale (Independent) in a discussion chaired by Northamptonshire farmer and vice chairman of NFU’s Leicestershire, Northants and Rutland branch, Richard Harris.
Richard said: “Living in more isolated locations around the county, crime is a constant worry for us and our families. With police budgets being cut and manpower reduced, it seems that rural Northamptonshire is a prime target for thieves.
“The increasing levels of metal thefts, burglaries and machinery thefts are worrying as are the higher incidences of anti-social crimes such as fly-tipping and increasingly, fly grazing.
“We hope that this NFU-organised meeting will allow the candidates in the November 15 election to hear at first-hand about the issues facing people who live in Northamptonshire’s villages and rural areas.
“And it will give an opportunity for the five candidates to set out their views on how they will tackle rural policing issues if they are elected.”
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