{"id":675602,"date":"2026-01-05T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675602\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:54:10","slug":"devon-and-cornwall-police-commissioner-quits-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675602\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon and Cornwall Police Commissioner quits Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hernandez said her achievements in the role included the re-opening of 15 police inquiry offices, &#8220;strong leadership of policing&#8221; and a &#8220;lower crime rate than most other police force areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referring to the abolition of PCCs, she said: &#8220;Rushed timescales, work done in secret with little consultation, this feels like something being done to the police and the people, not being done with or for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We cannot afford for party politics to get in the way of ensuring we all work together to get the best deal for the people of Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reacting to the resignation, Luke Pollard, Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, said: &#8220;I suspect that there is more to this story than we are being told, but the truth is, the role has never been clearly defined, and few will mourn its loss. The sooner it&#8217;s gone, the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Conservative Party spokesman said the party was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; with Hernandez&#8217;s decision but thanked her for her work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Local Conservatives in Devon and Cornwall will remain focused on ensuring that Alison delivers on our commitments to tackle rural crime and put more police on the streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hernandez said her achievements in the role included the re-opening of 15 police inquiry offices, &#8220;strong leadership of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-675602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115843069619411464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}