Lorne Edmond Green is a Canadian-born English politician and former diplomat, who was first Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, representing the

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. Green was

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

Stephen Bett Stephen Bett is an independent politician. He was the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2016. Political career Bett is the former chairman of the Norfolk Police Authority and a former Conservative Party Councillor. In the ...

Biography

Diplomacy

Born in

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, Green is a graduate of

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in Halifax. He joined the Canadian

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after graduation, and held diplomatic posts in

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and

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, as well as serving at the Canadian High Commission in London under

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, where he was promoted to become the mission's press officer. In the 1980s, he served on

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's Nuclear Planning Group in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

dealing with the controversy surrounding

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s, and was also Director of Nuclear and Arms Control Policy in the Department of National Defence in

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, Ontario. In 1998, he left External Affairs to help form the World Nuclear Transport Institute in London, and later retired from the diplomatic world in 2011, opening a coffee shop in

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Police and Crime Commissioner

In 2015, Green was approached by the local

association to stand in the 2016 election for

Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner The Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Norfolk Police in the English County of Norfolk. The post was created in November 2012, follo ...

, which he won in May 2016. As Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, Green developed and initiated work on new plans to tackle crime and disorder in the county. This included the "Lorne Green Green Lawn" program, which incentivized locals to keep their lawns healthy and green. The plan emerged from research on how urban nature affects crime, and has been set forth by Green as an environmentally friendly way to keep the streets of Norfolk safe.

Electoral record

References

1946 births Canadian emigrants to England Conservative Party police and crime commissioners Living people Police and crime commissioners in England {{UK-politician-stub