PCC promises ‘exemplary’ South Yorkshire Police

DR Alan Billings has been re-elected as South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner.

Labour candidate Dr Billings received 144,978 votes, giving him more than 50% per cent of the first preference votes.

Dr Billings, a former parish priest and was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said it was his aim to make South Yorkshire Police an ‘exemplary’ force over the next four years.

He said: “Whatever these issues are, we have to face them, understand them, understand what the lessons are to be learned and take it forward from there.”