Heather Shearer

As your Police & Crime Commissioner, my priorities will be:

• Set Neighbourhood police priorities locally not centrally, with the involvement of the community and its leaders
• Increase prosecution and conviction rates for serious violence and sexual offences and improve the treatment of victims
• Policing with integrity, consent and without discrimination
• Strengthen trust in the police by increasing openness and transparency

Instead of simply focusing on arrests and enforcement, I will focus on preventing and reducing crime in the first place. We can cut crime more effectively by doing what consistent research evidence shows works best. I will therefore put more resources into:

• preventing first-time offenders from going on to reoffend
• helping recently-released prisoners who want to go straight and stay out of trouble
• focusing attention on offenders who don’t want to give up their life of crime

I would ensure that these aims are prioritised and that public money, our money, is well spent.

I am not a career politician. I have worked in a range of different jobs so can see the world from many viewpoints. As a member of the Police and Crime Panel I have experience of supporting and scrutinising the Police & Crime Commissioner and I am an elected district councillor.

Being Police & Crime Commissioner is a more than full-time job. If elected as your Commissioner I will undertake no other employment.

Prepared by Halliday James MacFie, Election Agent, 43 Manor Road, Keynsham, BS31 1RB

Contact details

heather4betterpolicing@gmail.com