Darryl Preston is a British Conservative Party politician and former police officer, who currently serves as the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

Career

Preston joined the

Metropolitan Police The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

in 1983, before transferring in 1998 to the

Cambridgeshire Constabulary Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the local territorial police force that covers the county of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough unitary authority. It provides law enforcement and security for an area of and population of 856,000 people, in a pred ...

, where he served until retirement in 2017. He then became a senior official of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners.

Police and Crime Commissioner

Preston was elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire in

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References

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