Keith Hunter is a British politician and former police officer, who is a former Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside, representing the Labour Party. He was

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to the post on 5 May 2016, succeeding the previous incumbent,

Matthew Grove Matthew Paul Grove (born May 1963) is a former Conservative Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner. Career Grove was the first person to hold the post of Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner, serving between November 2012 and May 2016. ...

. Hunter spent thirty years with

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, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent, where he was divisional commander at

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. He retired in 2011, but caused controversy prior to his departure after a series of interviews he gave to the ''

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'' in which he was critical of government budget cuts to the police, describing them as the "perfect storm" for rising crime. He sought the Labour candidacy at the 2012 police and crime commissioner elections, but was defeated by former Deputy Prime Minister

John Prescott John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he w ...

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