A police and crime commissioner (PCC) who was elected last year promising to crack down on speeding drivers, has admitted breaking a 30-miles-per-hour speed limit 5 times in 12 weeks.
Caroline Henry, the Conservative PCC for Nottinghamshire, refused to say if she would resign from the position after she appeared before magistrates on May 3.
For administrative reasons the hearing was adjourned until July 19, when Henry will argue two of the offences were because of “emergencies,” one of which stemmed from her being “very concerned for one of her children.”
In May last year Henry, a businesswoman with no prior experience of policing, beat the incumbent, Labour’s Paddy Tipping, by 7,000 votes.
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