Richard Rhodes (police commissioner)

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Richard Rhodes

Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria Constabulary
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2012
Personal details
Political party	Conservative

Richard Rhodes is the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria Constabulary. He is the first person to hold the post and was elected on 15 November 2012.^[1] He defeated Labour candidate Patrick Leonard.

In April 2013 the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald newspaper ran a story about Richard Rhodes's spending of £700 on a chauffeur for two evening engagements in the Lake District in January and February. Four days after publication, Cumbria police arrested a number of Cumbria police staff over the alleged 'leak'. In October 2013 the Crown Prosecution Service announced that no criminal proceedings would be taken against one of the 'whistleblowers', Mrs Irene Brown.^[2]

References

↑ "Cumbria PCC: Richard Rhodes elected for Conservatives". BBC News (BBC). 16 November 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
↑ Cumberland and Westmorland Herald 26.10.2013

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He did pay this money back when it appeared in the press http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/cumbria-police-crime-commissioners-expenses

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