Here are the candidates for the Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner elections

Sussex police and crime commissioner candidates

Elections will be held on the November 15th to choose police and crime commissioners who will replace police authorities currently in charge of 41 forces in England and Wales.

PCCs, as they will be known, will be responsible for setting priorities for their police force, overseeing its budget and hiring the chief constable.

Those in the biggest force areas will get salaries of more than £100,000 and no prior police force experience is needed.



Nominations for candidates have now closed. This list of candidates is subject to confirmation.

KATY BOURNE - Conservative

Businesswoman Katy Bourne is a Mid Sussex district councillor and national chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation.

A governor at Oriel School, Crawley, and Roedean School in Brighton, she lives in Mid Sussex.

Mrs Bourne has pledged to free up more money for frontline policing by reducing bureaucracy and waste, and to improve neighbourhood policing by putting more special constables in each community.

IAN CHISNALL - Independent

Ian Chisnall is a community development worker, who works in the private, voluntary and community sectors.

He was born in Liverpool but now lives in Brighton. He says his experience of helping develop partnerships between agencies in different sectors would stand him in good stead for the PCC role.

Mr Chisnall wants sufficient resources for domestic violence, abuse and hate crime, better drugs education and to encourage self-policing for communities to free up resources for more serious crimes.

GODFREY DANIEL - Labour

Godfrey Daniel, a mental health worker, is an East Sussex county councillor, a member of Sussex Police Authority and a former member of the Sussex Probation Board.

Mr Daniel is a former mayor of Hastings and has been a magistrate for more than 20 years.

He wants to crack down on anti-social behaviour through better neighbourhood policing and to plough more resources into investigating cases of domestic violence and hate crimes. He also wants Sussex Police to offload unnecessary assets.

DAVID ROGERS - Liberal Democrat

David Rogers has been a councillor in Sussex for more than 35 years, and has also served as chair of Sussex Police Authority.

He has pledged to listen to Sussex's diverse communities and act on their priorities.

He has also vowed to seek new ways to combat crime at its roots, saying: "It is not enough to just lock people up and throw away the key."

Mr Rogers lives in Newhaven.

TONY ARMSTRONG - UKIP

Tony Armstrong is a former Kent and Metropolitan Police officer, who was born in Tunbridge Wells but now lives in Burgess Hill.

He ran his own business as an executive chauffeur, before becoming a Taxi and Private Hire Licensing Officer for Worthing Borough Council. He resigned at the end of September in order to be allowed to stand in this election.

Mr Armstrong has said his priorities will be to ensure value for money and that any cuts do not affect frontline services.

He has also pledged to encourage the expansion of the Special Constabulary and police volunteers, and the deployment of greater numbers of road policing officers.