SIX candidates are in the running to secure the £85,000 per year job as Hampshire's first police and crime commissioner.

The election for the new post takes place on November 15 and the successful candidate will take up office a week later.

This is part of a nationwide series of elections which will result in the replacement of local police authorities with a crime commissioner who, in this county, will oversee policing in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

While not running the police, the commissioners will be responsible for holding the chief constable to account on the public's behalf.

For full story, see this week's Petersfield Herald.