Jason Ablewhite is the former Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire (PCC), representing the Conservative Party. He is also a former

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popu ...

district councillor for St Ives. He was elected to the PCC post in the 2016 election, succeeding the previous incumbent,

Graham Bright Sir Graham Frank James Bright (born 2 April 1942) is a British politician and businessman. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1997. He subsequently served as the Cambridgeshire Police and ...

. Ablewhite was elected as a Conservative councillor in St Ives in 2005, and was Conservative leader of the district council for five years, before standing down in 2015 to take up the role of PCC. On 11 November 2019 he resigned as Police and Crime Commissioner following his referral to the

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after a complaint from a member of the public alleging that Ablewhite had sent her unsolicited indecent photographs of himself via social media. He was succeeded by his deputy, Ray Bisby Following on from this a police investigation was believed to have found rounds of live ammunition in his property.

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Living people Police and crime commissioners in England Conservative Party police and crime commissioners Conservative Party (UK) councillors Councillors in Cambridgeshire 1972 births Leaders of local authorities of England {{UK-politician-stub