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The former Portsmouth City Council leader won the election race with 312,993 votes. Labour candidate Tony Bunday came second with 145,751 votes. It comes as Liberal Democrat Richard Murphy and independent Steve James-Bailey were eliminated after first preferences were counted. Ms Jones pledged to do a complete overhaul of the 101 and 999 services and to deliver 600 police officers across the county. She also committed to removing bureaucracy allowing officers to be on patrol. She said: “This is going to be paid for by the general eletions pledge by the Conservative Party from 2019 to recruit 20,000 police officers nationally. In Hampshire we estimate that it’s going to be about 450 and additional officers will be given money from the Safer Streets Fund and the Specialist Violence Reduction Unit and I anticipate that funding continuing so we should end up with around 600 additional police officers.”