Charity vow by police-tsar candidate

Former Hull Council leader Simone Butterworth said she’d give the money to a fund helping groups supporting victims of crime.

Coun Butterworth said the £75,000 wage was “out of keeping” with local salaries, adding: “It is important for victims of crime to be given support, and for them to be listened to when it comes to how the police is run.”

Another candidate, former Humberside Police chief superintendent Paul Davison, said the suggestion was commendable, but missed the point of the job – to cut “way too high” levels of
crime.

He added: “This is a big job and this is just deflecting attention from the point of a commissioner. My pledge is to investigate every crime, which is what will make the difference to victims. For total crimes per head of population we are only better than West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and the Met.”