Jonathan Ash-Edwards was elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire in May 2024.
Jonathan is passionate about keeping Hertfordshire safe and believes that policing should be visible, responsive and rooted in the communities it serves.
Hertfordshire means a lot to Jonathan, meeting his partner here and moving to the county with his young family.
Highly committed to public service, Jonathan has a wide range of leadership, governance and financial experience.
Jonathan first got involved in politics campaigning to save his local hospital when he was 20 and has been serving the public in various roles since then.
Committed to education and opportunities for young people, Jonathan founded an education trust now responsible for the education of over 3,500 young people and has worked nationally to support effective school governance.
As Police & Crime Commissioner, Jonathan has created a Police and Crime Plan that sets out his priorities to keep Hertfordshire safe by ensuring that there are record numbers of police officers providing visible and responsive local policing focused on catching criminals.
Since his election, Jonathan has launched Operation Hotspot, a £1m initiative to put additional high visibility police patrols into 26 hotspots of anti-social behaviour, crime and violence.
He has also launched a new public webcast Accountability & Performance Meeting so that his statutory duty to hold the Chief Constable to account for policing performance is publicly transparent for the first time.
Jonathan serves as the national lead Police and Crime Commissioner for crime prevention, and children and young people...