Dog bites Police and Crime Commissioner election candidate Alison Hernandez
It happened when she was delivering leaflets in Paignton and required a trip to Newton Abbot s Minor Injuries Unit
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Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner candidate Alison Hernandez suffered a dog bite on election day.
Alison Hernandez, Conservative candidate for police and crime commissioner (Image: Alison Hernandez - free for use by LDRS partners) Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner candidate Alison Hernandez suffered a dog bite on election day. She tweeted a picture of her bandaged finger after a visit to the Minor Injuries Unit at Newton Abbot Hospital. Ms Hernandez was seeking re-election to the job she has done since winning the vote in May 2016. She was delivering leaflets in Paignton when she was bitten on the hand. Ms Hernandez was given antibiotics and later praised the care she received at the hospital when she arrived at the election count in the Assembly Room in Torquay on Thursday night.
The Police and Crime Commissioner candidates for Devon and Cornwall (from top left): Gareth Derrick, Alison Hernandez, Stuart Jackson and Brian Blake Candidates from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party are lining up to challenge Conservative Alison Hernandez who is seeking re-election as police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall. The voting takes place across the two counties today (Thursday) alongside elections for Cornwall and Devon councils, a third of the seats in Exeter and Plymouth, local council by-elections, parish and town councils and neighbourhood plan referendums. The Labour candidate for commissioner is Gareth Derrick, a former Royal Navy commodore, who is a Plymouth city councillor and was parliamentary candidate in South East Cornwall in 2017 and 2019. He came a close second to Ms Hernandez at the last PCC election in 2014.
The party is fielding seven former Armed Forces personnel to stand as crime tsars.
They include Giles Orpen-Smellie, who served with the Parachute Regiment and is standing in Norfolk; former Cavalry Regiment officer Mark Shelford who is seeking election in Avon and Somerset; and Chris Nelson, an ex-colonel with the Royal Artillery, who is standing in Gloucestershire.
Mr Shelford, 59, said his frontline experience in Afghanistan and Northern Ireland would help to police Bristol, the scene of recent Kill The Bill rioting.
The Conservatives have drafted in the military to help secure victory in this week’s elections. The party is fielding seven former Armed Forces personnel to stand as crime tsars (stock image)
Four candidates have come forward for the election to become police and crime commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The vote for a.