Mel up for Police Commissioner

Mel Kendall, a Milford on Sea resident, executive member of Hampshire County Council and private investment consultant, is on a Hampshire Tories shortlist of six for their candidate for the £80,000-a-year post of police commissioner.

The shortlist also includes: Roger Ainsley, a rear admiral from Southsea; Christopher Brannigan, a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards from Winchester; Donna Jones, a magistrate and Portsmouth City councillor; Michael Mates, the 77-year-old former MP for East Hampshire; and Sean Woodward, the leader of Fareham Borough Council.

The public will have a chance to choose the top two candidates during a public meeting at Ferneham Hall in Fareham on 16th June from 10am to 4pm.

Two candidates from the caucus will go on to three Conservative members' meetings where party activists can vote for their choice.  The winner of the process will be unveiled at the final members' meeting on 5th July at Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton, Hook, Hampshire.

Following this, the final two will then go forward for party members to decide who will be the Tory candidate for the brand new role in the election to be held on 15th November this year.