Meet Harborough's youngest 'Chief Inspector' who has become a Twitter star for serving his community - at the age of just eight

A brilliant schoolboy police superfan from Market Harborough is copping a whole load of praise after creating Leicestershire Police’s very own Christmas card.

Eight-year-old artistic superstar Jay really is one of the Boys in Blue – taking after his proud dad, who is one of the force’s local response officers.

And Jay was stunned to be personally handed the police’s first card to be delivered this Christmas – by Chief Constable Simon Cole himself no less.

The talented police-mad youngster - who’s even set up his own internationally-acclaimed Twitter account called Chief Inspector Jay@ShortArmOfLaw – opened his front door to find Mr Cole standing there with the card in his hand.

Kid cop Jay was asked by the force for his expert help after becoming a mini-legend on social media for saluting and paying tribute to his real life police superheroes.

His fantastic festive and very topical masterpiece features a police officer wearing a coronavirus face covering and a police dog sitting by a Christmas tree.

“I had so much fun drawing the 2020 Leicestershire Police Christmas card and meeting Simon Cole again," said Jay, who also stars on the card proudly wearing his own helmet and police uniform.

“The first time I met him was on my tour of the force HQ last year.”

“Things are a bit different now but I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and a very Happy New Year.”

Inspired by his role model dad, Jay began patrolling the streets of his hometown Market Harborough.

The extraordinary youngster has been going out in all weathers to pick up litter - and soon became noticed by Insp Siobhan Gorman, who heads up the town’s police.

Jay’s also quickly built up a small army of nearly 4,000 loyal Twitter fans – from as far away as Russia, Canada and the USA.

His proud mum Hayley said: “It was soon after Jay started patrolling the streets here back in 2019 that we made him a Twitter account which I manage.

“From there Jay really started to get recognised and it took off.

“His account under his preferred title ‘Chief Inspector Jay’ now has nearly 4,000 online Twitter followers from all over the world.

“Many of which coming from Canada and America, but also as far as Russia too!”

She added: “We’ve been fortunate enough to have received amazing collectables from these people such as police patches, pins, challenge coins and hat badges.

“This has helped Jay create a collector’s wall at home full of items sent from his online supporters.

“It’s been absolutely amazing to make people smile through sharing Jay’s passion for policing.

“We never thought it would become such an uplift for other officers and for us as his parents as well.

“After the year we’ve all had it’s just lovely to share our story and provide a little Christmas community spirit through Jay designing the 2020 police Christmas card.”

You can check out the amazing Chief Inspector Jay’s latest tales and adventures on his Twitter page here: https://twitter.com/shortarmoflaw?lang=en