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A Police Dog vehicle pictured in 2013. Avon and Somerset Police use a variety of standard UK police equipment including TETRA digital radios, rigid handcuffs, PAVA spray and the ASP collapsible baton. Some officers also routinely carry the TASER Stun device designed to electrically shock a subject making them fall to the ground and to be subdued.
The Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner is the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by Avon and Somerset Police in the English unitary authorities of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Somerset. The post was created in ...
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The Independent Scrutiny of Police Powers Panel (ISOPPP), a volunteer organisation set up by the Avon and Somerset Police, said that "radical overhaul" of the system was needed as the Professional Standards Department and IOPC "protect the police rather than the public", which undermines the principle of policing by consent. [9] [19]
Before being elected as the police and crime commissioner, Mountstevens was an independent member of Avon and Somerset Police Authority (the body which, as Police and Crime Commissioner, she replaces), vice-chair of the Independent Monitoring Board for Bristol Prison and was a magistrate for 15 years. Earlier in her career she was a director of ...
Mark Grosvenor McNeill Shelford (born November 1961 [3]) is a British Conservative politician and former lieutenant colonel in the British Army, who served as the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner from 2021 until 2024.
His policing career commenced as a recruit at Avon and Somerset in 1987. [4] He later became assistant chief constable (ACC) for Wiltshire Police, then ACC for Avon and Somerset, then chief constable of Hampshire Constabulary. [4] From February 2016 to July 2021, he was chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police. [5]
Avon Products, a manufacturer of various cosmetics and personal care products; Avon (publisher), an imprint of the publisher HarperCollins; Avon Rubber, a manufacturer of rubber products; Avon Tyres, a UK car, motorcycle and racing-tyre manufacturer, owned by the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company; Avon and Somerset Police, a police service in the ...