Community champion Gurvinder Sandher, the current County Chair of the Kent Police Independent Advisory Group and Vice Chair of the Kent Police and Crime Panel, will be standing as an Independent Candidate in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections taking place on 5 May.
Gurvinder, born in Gravesend and now a resident of Dartford, has lived and worked in Kent his entire adult life. He is the CEO of the Kent Equality Cohesion Council, Artistic Director of Cohesion Plus and currently delivers several successful community projects across Kent working in partnership with local authority and community organisations.
Amongst his key priorities if he is elected the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner is to invest in policing; putting extra officers into frontline services on the streets of Kent and to make smarter use of technology so that officers spend more time dealing with members of the public who work at the heart of the local communities.
He also wants to ensure that Kent Police and their partners continue to assist and support the most vulnerable members of the local communities, including the victims of child sexual exploitation, domestic abuse, hate crime and those vulnerable to substance misuse and gangs.
In a statement Gurvinder Sandher said “I passionately believe that there should be no party politics in policing and I will work very hard during the campaign to address the various issues that matter most to Kent communities and aim to deliver with action devoid of any political agenda. Affective law enforcement should be free of political rhetoric. My campaign will only succeed with the support of local residents and I hope over the coming weeks they come out and support me, all offers of help will be greatly received between now and Election Day. The power to make a positive change truly does lie in the hands of the local community.”
